A291 crash in Canterbury on 10 June 2000 at 15:10 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405 and a Ford Orion were involved in a crash on the A291 in Canterbury at 15:10 on Saturday 10 June 2000. The 21-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 405 and the 20-year-old female driver of the Ford Orion were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jun 2000
- Saturday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 405 and Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33696, longitude 1.11949, in the CT6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200046CT24156
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 291
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 23 January 1986
22 m awayRef 1986465200706
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 29 March 1998
40 m awayRef 199846CT03761
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 24 October 1991
40 m awayRef 199146EB19141
Slight
Volkswagen UP crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 5 August 2020
46 m awayRef 2020460973870
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 4 June 2024
49 m awayRef 2024461460235
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 6 May 1996
51 m awayRef 199646CT25998
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Orion)
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 200046CT24156 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 2000.