A28 crash in Canterbury on 16 May 1995 at 20:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A28 in Canterbury at 20:40 on Tuesday 16 May 1995. The 44-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 1995
- Tuesday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2649, longitude 1.03671, in the CT4 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199546CT21328
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 28
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
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The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 2009.
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Fatal
Mazda 626 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 4 April 1999
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199546CT21328 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 1995.