A254 crash in Thanet on 11 February 2022 at 13:00 involving a Vauxhall Meriva
A motorcycle and a Vauxhall Meriva were involved in a crash on the A254 in Thanet at 13:00 on Friday 11 February 2022. The 46-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Meriva, a 32-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Meriva and a 22-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Meriva were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 2022
- Friday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Vauxhall Meriva
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35071, longitude 1.40377, in the CT12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ramsgate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Northwood, Thanet, CT12 6BP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thanet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022461144740
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 254
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 2025.
Slight
Car crash on the A254 in Thanet, 2 April 2025
10 m awayRef 2025461572753
Slight
Car crash on the A254 in Thanet, 21 December 1979
12 m awayRef 1979465310239
Slight
Car crash on the A254 in Thanet, 4 August 1985
12 m awayRef 1985465306645
Slight
Scooter crash on the A254 in Thanet, 12 May 1986
12 m awayRef 1986465303736
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A254 in Thanet, 9 May 1983
12 m awayRef 1983465303513
Slight
Car crash on the A254 in Thanet, 9 January 1991
12 m awayRef 199146EC00311
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Meriva)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Meriva)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Meriva)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2022461144740 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 2022.