Unclassified road crash in Thanet CT7 on 26 April 2017 at 18:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Thanet at 18:00 on Wednesday 26 April 2017. The 56-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 2017
- Wednesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36749, longitude 1.33402, in the CT7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Margate.
Map of where the crash happened in Thanet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017460179554
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B2049 in Thanet, 8 December 1996
5 m awayRef 199646TH29474
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B2049 in Thanet, 20 May 1997
5 m awayRef 199746TH32246
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2049 in Thanet, 22 November 1992
5 m awayRef 1992460709362
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B2049 in Thanet, 22 March 1997
5 m awayRef 199746TH30878
Slight
Volkswagen Derby crash on the B2049 in Thanet, 4 December 1996
5 m awayRef 199646TH29430
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the B2049 in Thanet, 8 January 2007
5 m awayRef 2007460136112
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2017460179554 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Thanet road accident statistics for 2017.