Serious A28 crash in Canterbury on 16 September 1997 at 08:30 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205, a Peugeot 106 and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A28 in Canterbury at 08:30 on Tuesday 16 September 1997. A 47-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 106 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Sep 1997
- Tuesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot 205 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28445, longitude 1.08705, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199746CT00785
- 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
- 30 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 20 March 2014.
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 20 March 2014
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Serious
HGV crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 26 September 2011
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Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 8 October 2014
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Slight
Renault Scenic crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 27 April 2018
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Slight
Van crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 30 April 2021
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Serious
Peugeot 3008 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 28 August 2025
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 106)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199746CT00785 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 1997.