Serious B2205 crash in Canterbury on 27 May 2003 at 18:45 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405 and a car were involved in a crash on the B2205 in Canterbury at 18:45 on Tuesday 27 May 2003. The 33-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 405 and a 17-year-old male passenger in the car were seriously injured and the 42-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 May 2003
- Tuesday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 405 and car
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36382, longitude 1.14445, in the CT6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Herne Bay. It is one of the crashes that make up the Beltinge, Canterbury, CT6 6FX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200346CT77083
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2205
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 2014.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 14 May 2014
28 m awayRef 2014460241712
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 7 November 2012
28 m awayRef 2012460220985
Serious
Peugeot Speedfight crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 3 May 2017
33 m awayRef 2017460180940
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 25 September 2000
36 m awayRef 200046CT29265
Slight
Leyland crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 29 April 1998
45 m awayRef 199846CT04532
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 16 December 2013
45 m awayRef 2013460236028
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, 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 200346CT77083 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 2003.