Serious A28 crash in Canterbury on 13 September 1993 at 09:35 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra hit a pedestrian on the A28 in Canterbury at 09:35 on Monday 13 September 1993. A 21-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Sep 1993
- Monday, 09:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32282, longitude 1.19585, in the CT3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993460613201
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 28
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 March 1993.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 7 March 1993
10 m awayRef 1993460610828
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 24 May 1992
14 m awayRef 1992460606738
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 14 December 2000
14 m awayRef 200046CT33717
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 29 September 1991
22 m awayRef 199146EG17431
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 10 August 2006
42 m awayRef 2006460129470
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 11 December 2000
42 m awayRef 200046CT33918
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1993460613201 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 1993.