Unclassified road crash in Folkestone and Hythe CT18 on 16 March 2017 at 16:46 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Folkestone and Hythe at 16:46 on Thursday 16 March 2017. The 28-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 2017
- Thursday, 16:46
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11131, longitude 1.09734, in the CT18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Folkestone and Hythe
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017460169831
- Council area
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 June 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the B2065 in Folkestone and Hythe, 15 June 1981
31 m awayRef 1981467203361
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Folkestone and Hythe, 16 December 2006
55 m awayRef 2006460135345
Slight
Vauxhall Belmont crash on the B2065 in Folkestone and Hythe, 21 September 1994
88 m awayRef 1994460918184
Serious
Nissan Cherry crash on the B2065 in Folkestone and Hythe, 10 November 1993
91 m awayRef 1993460914001
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B2065 in Folkestone and Hythe, 23 April 2008
102 m awayRef 2008460156477
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B2065 in Folkestone and Hythe, 4 April 1983
108 m awayRef 1983467201723
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2017460169831 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Folkestone and Hythe road accident statistics for 2017.