B2050 crash in Thanet on 15 August 2025 at 16:45 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A car, a Vauxhall Zafira and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B2050 in Thanet at 16:45 on Friday 15 August 2025. A 19-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 2025
- Friday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Zafira and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34767, longitude 1.36123, in the CT12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Minster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thanet Villages, Thanet, CT12 5BL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thanet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461629457
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2050
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 2008.
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the B2050 in Thanet, 16 May 2008
7 m awayRef 2008460158087
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 27 March 2006
11 m awayRef 2006460123918
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B2050 in Thanet, 22 September 2014
11 m awayRef 2014460247386
Slight
Renault Twingo crash on the B2050 in Thanet, 31 January 2016
15 m awayRef 2016460044718
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B2050 in Thanet, 20 January 2008
17 m awayRef 2008460155507
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the B2050 in Thanet, 17 March 2006
17 m awayRef 2006460123775
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
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
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2025461629457 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 2025.