A28 crash in Canterbury on 15 October 2005 at 22:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A28 in Canterbury at 22:00 on Saturday 15 October 2005. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2005
- Saturday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29281, longitude 1.1053, in the CT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Northgate, Canterbury, CT1 1ZG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005460116832
- 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
- Dual 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 February 2017.
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BMW 2 Series crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 8 February 2017
5 m awayRef 2017460156075
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Mitsubishi Galant crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 25 July 1997
10 m awayRef 199746CT32662
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 5 August 2011
10 m awayRef 2011460203308
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Bicycle crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 20 September 2002
10 m awayRef 200246CT64371
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 14 December 2001
10 m awayRef 200146CT50849
Slight
Scania crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 11 May 2002
10 m awayRef 200246CT57536
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2005460116832 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.