B2205 crash in Canterbury on 23 January 1997 at 14:10 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the B2205 in Canterbury at 14:10 on Thursday 23 January 1997. A 50-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.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 1997
- Thursday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35598, longitude 1.0242, in the CT5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitstable.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199746CT30093
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2205
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Authorised person
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2205
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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 1 September 1998.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 1 September 1998
At the same spotRef 199846CT06497
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 15 February 1997
At the same spotRef 199746CT30469
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 4 November 1991
At the same spotRef 199146EG20141
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 1 July 2004
At the same spotRef 200446CT95900
Slight
Toyota crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 9 October 2008
At the same spotRef 2008460163357
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 5 March 2013
10 m awayRef 2013460224978
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 199746CT30093 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.