Serious unclassified road crash in Dover CT16 on 22 November 2025 at 23:25 involving a car
A car hit two pedestrians on an unclassified road in Dover at 23:25 on Saturday 22 November 2025. A 63-year-old female pedestrian and a 68-year-old male pedestrian were seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Nov 2025
- Saturday, 23:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13628, longitude 1.30056, in the CT16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dover. It is one of the crashes that make up the Buckland, Dover, CT16 2AD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461672355
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 256
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the A256 in Dover, 6 December 2008
8 m awayRef 2008460165676
Slight
Car crash on the A256 in Dover, 24 August 1992
8 m awayRef 1992460808056
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on the A256 in Dover, 17 August 1996
8 m awayRef 199646SK27777
Slight
Daihatsu Sirion crash on the A256 in Dover, 14 May 2019
10 m awayRef 2019460846281
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A256 in Dover, 3 September 1993
21 m awayRef 1993460813067
Serious
Car crash on the A256 in Dover, 9 September 2021
22 m awayRef 2021461087938
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 63, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 68, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025461672355 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.