A28 crash in Canterbury on 29 July 2002 at 21:15 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A28 in Canterbury at 21:15 on Monday 29 July 2002. The 29-year-old female driver of the car and a 10-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jul 2002
- Monday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28387, longitude 1.08648, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200246CT61236
- 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
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 2019.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 19 November 2019
4 m awayRef 2019460901403
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 21 March 2013
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Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 13 August 2012
14 m awayRef 2012460217229
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 14 November 2017
16 m awayRef 2017460243644
Slight
Renault Extra crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 22 April 1997
22 m awayRef 199746CT31245
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 26 August 2013
22 m awayRef 2013460231485
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200246CT61236 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.