Unclassified road crash in Folkestone and Hythe CT20 on 5 April 2025 at 10:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Folkestone and Hythe at 10:00 on Saturday 5 April 2025. A 37-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 5 Apr 2025
- Saturday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07774, longitude 1.18417, in the CT20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461579017
- 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
- Unclassified
- 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
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 7 October 2001.
Slight
Car crash on the A260 in Folkestone and Hythe, 7 October 2001
4 m awayRef 200146SK47435
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the A260 in Folkestone and Hythe, 5 August 1993
4 m awayRef 1993460912829
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A260 in Folkestone and Hythe, 14 May 2004
7 m awayRef 200446SK93614
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A260 in Folkestone and Hythe, 31 August 1994
18 m awayRef 1994460918027
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A260 in Folkestone and Hythe, 26 July 2008
18 m awayRef 2008460160106
Slight
Peugeot 407 crash on the A260 in Folkestone and Hythe, 22 July 2014
18 m awayRef 2014460244650
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 37, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025461579017 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 2025.