A299 crash in Canterbury on 11 December 1995 at 20:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the A299 in Canterbury at 20:25 on Monday 11 December 1995. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 1995
- Monday, 20:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35382, longitude 1.04531, in the CT5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitstable.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199546CT24029
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 June 1998.
Slight
Mitsubishi Galant crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 2 June 1998
14 m awayRef 199846CT04916
Slight
Vauxhall Grandland crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 28 December 2019
47 m awayRef 2019460918954
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 6 December 2007
50 m awayRef 2007460150202
Slight
Skoda Citigo crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 16 July 2017
55 m awayRef 2017460208609
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 18 September 2018
55 m awayRef 2018460332320
Fatal
Bicycle crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 3 April 1984
57 m awayRef 1984466302434
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 199546CT24029 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.