A299 crash in Canterbury on 27 October 1994 at 03:09 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A299 in Canterbury at 03:09 on Thursday 27 October 1994. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Oct 1994
- Thursday, 03:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36302, longitude 1.10914, in the CT6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994460618581
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 299
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 299
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 2016.
Slight
Car crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 23 October 2016
8 m awayRef 2016460122591
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 25 January 1997
10 m awayRef 199746CT30210
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 26 November 2025
10 m awayRef 2025461674402
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 7 November 2019
12 m awayRef 2019460899386
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 31 March 2018
13 m awayRef 2018460284609
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 18 January 1996
14 m awayRef 199646CT24707
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,573 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 1994460618581 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.