Serious C road crash in Canterbury CT2 on 2 November 1990 at 18:15 involving a Nissan Bluebird
A Nissan Bluebird and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on a C road in Canterbury at 18:15 on Friday 2 November 1990. A 25-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Bluebird was seriously injured and the 32-year-old male driver of the Nissan Bluebird was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Nov 1990
- Friday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Bluebird and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2859, longitude 1.08327, in the CT2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199046EA24350
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B2248 in Canterbury, 8 May 2011
30 m awayRef 2011460199929
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Canterbury, 13 May 1992
32 m awayRef 1992460606717
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 9 August 2006
32 m awayRef 2006460129360
Slight
Dennis crash on the B2248 in Canterbury, 12 March 2011
36 m awayRef 2011460197912
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B2248 in Canterbury, 3 June 2019
39 m awayRef 2019460853851
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B2248 in Canterbury, 8 January 2023
40 m awayRef 2023461263657
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,952 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,897 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
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 199046EA24350 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 1990.