A28 crash in Canterbury on 3 January 2002 at 13:42 involving a car
A car crashed on the A28 in Canterbury at 13:42 on Thursday 3 January 2002. The 52-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jan 2002
- Thursday, 13:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26977, longitude 1.05829, in the CT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wincheap, Canterbury, CT1 3TR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200246CT51517
- 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
- 28
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 2010.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 15 October 2010
At the same spotRef 2010460193120
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 5 August 2006
At the same spotRef 2006460129192
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 6 April 2007
At the same spotRef 2007460140147
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 12 April 1999
10 m awayRef 199946CT00383
Fatal
Suzuki crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 18 June 1991
22 m awayRef 199146EA10531
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 30 January 2022
24 m awayRef 2022461140858
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200246CT51517 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 2002.