Serious A290 crash in Canterbury on 10 September 1989 at 14:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A290 in Canterbury at 14:00 on Sunday 10 September 1989. The 18-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Sep 1989
- Sunday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29477, longitude 1.05374, in the CT2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198946EA17389
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 290
- 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
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The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 April 2013.
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Slight
Volvo XC60 crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 27 April 2018
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Audi A4 crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 19 September 2020
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Serious
Rover 600 Series crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 11 September 2000
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Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 6 September 1994
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 198946EA17389 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.