A28 crash in Canterbury on 21 March 1989 at 08:25 involving a lorry
A lorry and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A28 in Canterbury at 08:25 on Tuesday 21 March 1989. The 16-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 1989
- Tuesday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29084, longitude 1.10082, in the CT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198946EA05529
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 28
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 9 November 1979.
Serious
Scooter crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 9 November 1979
At the same spotRef 1979466109059
Fatal
Bicycle crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 23 May 1980
At the same spotRef 1980466103870
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 7 June 1987
At the same spotRef 1987465103947
Serious
Car crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 29 October 1988
At the same spotRef 198846EA20488
Serious
Car crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 23 September 1980
At the same spotRef 1980466107380
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 23 March 2008
10 m awayRef 2008460154827
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 16, on vehicle 2 (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 198946EA05529 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 1989.