C road crash in Canterbury CT2 on 21 December 2000 at 17:10 involving a Ford Mondeo
Four vehicles, including a Ford Mondeo and a Ford Orion, were involved in a crash on a C road in Canterbury at 17:10 on Thursday 21 December 2000. The 57-year-old female driver of the Ford Orion and a 37-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2000
- Thursday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Mondeo and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29151, longitude 1.09001, in the CT2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200046CT34067
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 2002.
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Slight
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Orion)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Escort)
- 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 200046CT34067 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.