Unclassified road crash in Canterbury CT1 on 7 April 2005 at 14:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Peugeot 106 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury at 14:00 on Thursday 7 April 2005. The 17-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Apr 2005
- Thursday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26211, longitude 1.10309, in the CT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barton, Canterbury, CT1 3EL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005460108608
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 2050
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A2050 in Canterbury, 27 March 2016
6 m awayRef 2016460054286
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A2050 in Canterbury, 23 February 2022
9 m awayRef 2022461161225
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A2050 in Canterbury, 26 May 1999
14 m awayRef 199946CT01631
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A2050 in Canterbury, 5 August 1997
14 m awayRef 199746CT00120
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A2050 in Canterbury, 24 July 1997
14 m awayRef 199746CT32577
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2050 in Canterbury, 3 December 2022
15 m awayRef 2022461249525
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2005460108608 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 2005.