A290 crash in Canterbury on 19 March 1985 at 07:13 involving a car
A car crashed on the A290 in Canterbury at 07:13 on Tuesday 19 March 1985. The 42-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 1985
- Tuesday, 07:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31419, longitude 1.0335, in the CT2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985465101985
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 290
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 1999.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 26 October 1999
40 m awayRef 199946CT07943
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 15 June 2017
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Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 11 January 2025
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Slight
Proton Proton crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 19 June 1997
89 m awayRef 199746CT32133
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 15 June 2011
89 m awayRef 2011460201451
Serious
Van crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 17 June 1996
94 m awayRef 199646CT26653
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1985465101985 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 1985.