C road crash in Canterbury CT2 on 1 October 1997 at 16:40 involving an Austin Metro
An Austin Metro and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Canterbury at 16:40 on Wednesday 1 October 1997. The 13-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 1997
- Wednesday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Austin Metro and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29201, longitude 1.07665, in the CT2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199746CT00843
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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 May 1992.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Canterbury, 29 May 1992
10 m awayRef 1992460606806
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Canterbury, 28 January 1992
10 m awayRef 1992460600152
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on a C road in Canterbury, 29 June 1994
10 m awayRef 1994460616959
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 6 February 2019
19 m awayRef 2019460817580
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 24 January 2023
32 m awayRef 2023461268662
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Canterbury, 24 March 1989
41 m awayRef 198946EA05559
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Austin Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 13, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 199746CT00843 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.