A258 crash in Dover on 18 June 2018 at 18:20 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on the A258 in Dover at 18:20 on Monday 18 June 2018. The 19-year-old female driver of the Fiat Punto and the 38-year-old male driver of the Nissan Qashqai were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jun 2018
- Monday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1432, longitude 1.33017, in the CT15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Guston, Kingsdown & St Margaret's-at-Cliffe, Dover, CT15 5FD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dover
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460307394
- Council area
- Dover
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 258
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2010.
Slight
Car crash on the A258 in Dover, 25 November 2010
12 m awayRef 2010460193954
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A258 in Dover, 7 April 1991
20 m awayRef 199146DB31521
Slight
Car crash on the A258 in Dover, 12 January 1988
33 m awayRef 198846DB00378
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A258 in Dover, 12 August 2025
44 m awayRef 2025461628034
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A2 in Dover, 13 November 1994
45 m awayRef 1994460818823
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2 in Dover, 26 November 2003
66 m awayRef 200346SK86078
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018460307394 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dover road accident statistics for 2018.