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Serious A257 crash in Canterbury on 27 August 1996 at 13:44 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A257 in Canterbury at 13:44 on Tuesday 27 August 1996. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
27 Aug 1996
Tuesday, 13:44
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27763, longitude 1.09663, in the CT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199646CT27698
Council area
Canterbury
Police force
Kent
Highway authority
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
257
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 1999.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    32 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    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 199646CT27698 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 1996.