Unclassified road crash in Canterbury CT6 on 2 October 1981 at 08:15 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Canterbury at 08:15 on Friday 2 October 1981. The 14-year-old male cyclist 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
- 2 Oct 1981
- Friday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36284, longitude 1.13298, in the CT6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981466308481
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 28 May 1983.
Serious
Car crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 28 May 1983
At the same spotRef 1983466303853
Slight
Car crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 13 October 1988
At the same spotRef 198846EB19138
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 18 November 1982
At the same spotRef 1982466309172
Slight
Van crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 20 October 1981
At the same spotRef 1981466308991
Slight
Car crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 7 August 1982
At the same spotRef 1982466306402
Slight
Car crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 13 July 2005
30 m awayRef 2005460112863
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 14, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 1981466308481 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Canterbury road accident statistics for 1981.