A28 crash in Thanet on 28 May 2018 at 11:00 involving a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle
A car and a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A28 in Thanet at 11:00 on Monday 28 May 2018. A 64-year-old female passenger on the Triumph Bonneville motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 2018
- Monday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Triumph Bonneville
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.369, longitude 1.29946, 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
- 2018460301329
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 28
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 2016.
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on the A28 in Thanet, 3 October 2016
3 m awayRef 2016460119616
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on the A28 in Thanet, 28 February 2008
8 m awayRef 2008460154323
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A28 in Thanet, 28 July 2018
11 m awayRef 2018460316601
Slight
Leyland DAF 400 crash on the A28 in Thanet, 8 November 1995
19 m awayRef 199546TH23544
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A28 in Thanet, 25 November 2006
23 m awayRef 2006460134316
Serious
Renault Laguna crash on the A28 in Thanet, 3 August 2007
28 m awayRef 2007460145005
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Triumph Bonneville
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 865 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 64, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Triumph Bonneville)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018460301329 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 2018.