A28 crash in Canterbury on 5 September 1996 at 07:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A28 in Canterbury at 07:30 on Thursday 5 September 1996. A 30-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 1996
- Thursday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28244, longitude 1.08835, in the CT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199646CT27960
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 28
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 28
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 2001.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 10 December 2001
At the same spotRef 200146CT50432
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 22 July 1992
At the same spotRef 1992460607663
Slight
Car crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 16 April 1995
At the same spotRef 199546CT20842
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 5 February 1997
At the same spotRef 199746CT30264
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 30 January 2025
4 m awayRef 2025461550032
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 21 December 2016
9 m awayRef 2016460140750
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 30, 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 199646CT27960 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.