A290 crash in Canterbury on 4 September 1989 at 19:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A290 in Canterbury at 19:15 on Monday 4 September 1989. A 47-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 1989
- Monday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31415, longitude 1.03493, 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
- 198946EA18699
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 1984.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 31 October 1984
At the same spotRef 1984466108764
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 11 January 2025
20 m awayRef 2025461540304
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 15 June 2017
32 m awayRef 2017460204695
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 15 June 2011
45 m awayRef 2011460201451
Slight
Proton Proton crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 19 June 1997
45 m awayRef 199746CT32133
Slight
Mercedes CLK Class crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 2 September 2017
50 m awayRef 2017460221480
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,985 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198946EA18699 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.