A2034 crash in Folkestone and Hythe on 22 July 2023 at 16:50 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A car and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A2034 in Folkestone and Hythe at 16:50 on Saturday 22 July 2023. The 33-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo was 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
- 22 Jul 2023
- Saturday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08066, longitude 1.17736, in the CT20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Folkestone. It is one of the crashes that make up the Folkestone Central, Folkestone and Hythe, CT20 1EN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023461337372
- Council area
- Folkestone and Hythe
- 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
- 2034
- 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
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 2033
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 2021.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A2034 in Folkestone and Hythe, 2 August 2021
4 m awayRef 2021461074206
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A2034 in Folkestone and Hythe, 1 December 2025
4 m awayRef 2025461677115
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A2033 in Folkestone and Hythe, 16 October 1992
13 m awayRef 1992460908913
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A2033 in Folkestone and Hythe, 9 January 1994
13 m awayRef 1994460914786
Slight
Car crash on the A2033 in Folkestone and Hythe, 15 January 1995
13 m awayRef 1995460919759
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2034 in Folkestone and Hythe, 17 August 2004
13 m awayRef 200446SK98070
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 2023461337372 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 2023.