A2990 crash in Canterbury on 28 April 2004 at 08:25 involving a Fiat Tipo
A Fiat Tipo and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on the A2990 in Canterbury at 08:25 on Wednesday 28 April 2004. The 27-year-old female driver of the Fiat Tipo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Apr 2004
- Wednesday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Tipo and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35332, longitude 1.04461, in the CT5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitstable. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tankerton, Canterbury, CT5 2LA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200446CT92871
- 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
- 2990
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 2011.
Slight
Car crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 2 February 2011
At the same spotRef 2011460196671
Slight
Jeep Avenger crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 5 September 2025
4 m awayRef 2025461637804
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 20 December 2006
10 m awayRef 2006460135447
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 28 July 2012
10 m awayRef 2012460216510
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 31 October 1996
10 m awayRef 199646CT28807
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 14 November 2009
10 m awayRef 2009460179240
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Tipo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,372 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Tipo)
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 200446CT92871 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 2004.