A2 crash in Canterbury on 2 September 2001 at 01:45 involving a London Taxis Int. TX1
A London Taxis Int. TX1 hit a pedestrian on the A2 in Canterbury at 01:45 on Sunday 2 September 2001. A male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Sep 2001
- Sunday, 01:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- London Taxis Int. TX1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25512, longitude 1.11566, in the CT4 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200146CT45879
- 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
- 2
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 1999.
Slight
Rover crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 16 July 1999
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Fiat Seicento crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 4 October 2009
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Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 19 March 2005
14 m awayRef 2005460107826
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 11 June 1983
20 m awayRef 1983466104323
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Scania crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 22 August 1990
20 m awayRef 199046EA18530
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Ford Fiesta crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 21 November 1990
20 m awayRef 199046EA25330
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: London Taxis Int. TX1
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,664 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (London Taxis Int. TX1)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 200146CT45879 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.