A291 crash in Canterbury on 7 July 1989 at 19:05 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A291 in Canterbury at 19:05 on Friday 7 July 1989. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jul 1989
- Friday, 19:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33621, longitude 1.11968, 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
- 198946EB12779
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 291
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 2009.
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 28 December 2009
42 m awayRef 2009460181348
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 23 April 1994
42 m awayRef 1994460616127
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 4 June 2024
50 m awayRef 2024461460235
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 3 May 2013
50 m awayRef 2013460227038
Serious
Ford Kuga crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 13 September 2025
50 m awayRef 2025461641419
Slight
Volkswagen UP crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 5 August 2020
51 m awayRef 2020460973870
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 198946EB12779 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.