Serious unclassified road crash in Dover CT15 on 3 November 2025 at 17:27 involving a Ford Puma
A Ford Puma and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dover at 17:27 on Monday 3 November 2025. The 19-year-old male driver of the Ford Puma was seriously injured and the 25-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Monday, 17:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Puma and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.16767, longitude 1.3102, in the CT15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dover
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461663176
- Council area
- Dover
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Mud
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 7 September 2006
15 m awayRef 2006460130717
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 22 December 1997
35 m awayRef 199746SK03220
Serious
Citroen C5 crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 16 January 2012
55 m awayRef 2012460209946
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 16 February 2002
55 m awayRef 200246SK54420
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 24 June 1979
57 m awayRef 1979465204319
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 14 January 2012
114 m awayRef 2012460209822
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Puma
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Puma)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025461663176 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 2025.