A290 crash in Canterbury on 18 August 2003 at 16:40 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A290 in Canterbury at 16:40 on Monday 18 August 2003. The 15-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2003
- Monday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35225, longitude 1.02371, in the CT5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitstable. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gorrell, Canterbury, CT5 1NW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200346CT81046
- 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
- 290
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Unclassified
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 25 October 2011.
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Slight
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Serious
Bedford crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 3 September 1994
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Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 30 September 2025
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 18 May 2019
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Slight
Car crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 22 November 1983
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 15, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200346CT81046 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.