Serious A2050 crash in Canterbury on 19 January 2001 at 06:43 involving a Renault 19
A Renault 19 crashed on the A2050 in Canterbury at 06:43 on Friday 19 January 2001. The 22-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jan 2001
- Friday, 06:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault 19
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26295, longitude 1.102, in the CT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barton, Canterbury, CT1 3EL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200146CT35299
- 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
- 2050
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 February 1993.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A2050 in Canterbury, 1 February 1993
10 m awayRef 1993460610405
Slight
Car crash on the A2050 in Canterbury, 11 August 1987
14 m awayRef 1987465105907
Serious
Car crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 6 November 1981
14 m awayRef 1981466109441
Slight
Car crash on the A2050 in Canterbury, 13 May 1985
14 m awayRef 1985465103715
Serious
Car crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 28 August 1979
14 m awayRef 1979466106549
Slight
Car crash on the A2050 in Canterbury, 10 February 1989
14 m awayRef 198946EA02849
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault 19
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,764 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 19)
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 200146CT35299 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 2001.