A299 crash in Canterbury on 22 April 1994 at 17:24 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion crashed on the A299 in Canterbury at 17:24 on Friday 22 April 1994. A 29-year-old male passenger and a 14-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Apr 1994
- Friday, 17:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34137, longitude 1.02223, in the CT5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitstable.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994460616073
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 299
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 1996.
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 5 May 1996
10 m awayRef 199646CT25994
Slight
Car crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 15 October 1986
14 m awayRef 1986465208966
Fatal
Ford Kuga crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 1 March 2019
15 m awayRef 2019460819962
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 1 June 2025
20 m awayRef 2025461597252
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 25 August 2005
22 m awayRef 2005460114594
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 26 September 2018
35 m awayRef 2018460334631
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1994460616073 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 1994.