A2990 crash in Canterbury on 1 July 2000 at 08:48 involving a Land Rover
A Land Rover and an Iveco-Ford lorry were involved in a crash on the A2990 in Canterbury at 08:48 on Saturday 1 July 2000. The 21-year-old male driver of the Land Rover and a 20-year-old male passenger in the Land Rover were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 2000
- Saturday, 08:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover and Iveco-Ford
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36144, longitude 1.09529, 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
- 200046CT25224
- 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
- 2990
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 2021.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 24 May 2021
31 m awayRef 2021461049540
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 2 September 1995
54 m awayRef 199546CT22623
Fatal
Car crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 27 November 1985
63 m awayRef 1985465211025
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 15 October 2025
71 m awayRef 2025461655015
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 20 April 2017
81 m awayRef 2017460176611
Serious
Car crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 4 April 1980
89 m awayRef 1980466302790
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,792 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Iveco-Ford
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,861 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover)
- 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 200046CT25224 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.