A291 crash in Canterbury on 7 May 1997 at 10:15 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series hit a pedestrian on the A291 in Canterbury at 10:15 on Wednesday 7 May 1997. A 35-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 May 1997
- Wednesday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35052, longitude 1.13257, in the CT6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Herne.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199746CT31464
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 291
- 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
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 15 February 1991.
Slight
Talbot Horizon crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 15 February 1991
10 m awayRef 199146EB02761
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 19 January 2009
14 m awayRef 2009460167529
Slight
Car crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 24 February 2001
14 m awayRef 200146CT37039
Slight
Ford Ecosport crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 27 January 2023
23 m awayRef 2023461270728
Slight
Peugeot 108 crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 23 November 2025
28 m awayRef 2025461672485
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 15 May 2001
41 m awayRef 200146CT40728
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 199746CT31464 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.