Fatal A2005 crash in Canterbury on 30 November 2001 at 19:15 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 hit a pedestrian on the A2005 in Canterbury at 19:15 on Friday 30 November 2001. A 34-year-old male pedestrian was killed.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 30 Nov 2001
- Friday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28214, longitude 1.08364, in the CT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westgate, Canterbury, CT1 2SH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200146CT50136
- 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
- 2005
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 2043
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 June 2022.
Serious
Yamaha GPD crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 9 June 2022
5 m awayRef 2022461187661
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A2005 in Canterbury, 20 September 1994
14 m awayRef 1994460618072
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A2005 in Canterbury, 21 April 1996
14 m awayRef 199646CT25880
Slight
MG Metro crash on the A2005 in Canterbury, 30 September 1996
14 m awayRef 199646CT28186
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 22 October 2010
20 m awayRef 2010460192396
Slight
Audi 100 crash on the A2005 in Canterbury, 20 May 1992
20 m awayRef 1992460606643
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
FatalMale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
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 200146CT50136 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.