A291 crash in Canterbury on 15 May 2001 at 15:01 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Volvo lorry were involved in a crash on the A291 in Canterbury at 15:01 on Tuesday 15 May 2001. The 26-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 2001
- Tuesday, 15:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35083, longitude 1.13249, in the CT6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Herne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Herne & Broomfield, Canterbury, CT6 7NT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200146CT40728
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 January 1993.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 3 January 1993
14 m awayRef 1993460609980
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 7 May 1997
41 m awayRef 199746CT31464
Slight
Talbot Horizon crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 15 February 1991
45 m awayRef 199146EB02761
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 19 January 2009
54 m awayRef 2009460167529
Slight
Car crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 24 February 2001
54 m awayRef 200146CT37039
Slight
Ford Ecosport crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 27 January 2023
58 m awayRef 2023461270728
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 200146CT40728 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.