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Serious A28 crash in Canterbury on 4 January 2006 at 19:10 involving a Honda motorcycle

A car and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A28 in Canterbury at 19:10 on Wednesday 4 January 2006. The 31-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
4 Jan 2006
Wednesday, 19:10
Vehicles
2
Car and Honda
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30335, longitude 1.1284, in the CT2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sturry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sturry, Canterbury, CT2 0AQ area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2006460120414
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
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
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
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, 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
100%
Estimated chance it was slight
0%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 1996.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South West
    Position at junction
    Entering main road
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Journey purpose
    Other or not known
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    23 years

  • Vehicle 2: Honda

    Motorcycle over 500cc

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Position at junction
    Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Journey purpose
    Other or not known
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    31 years
    Engine capacity
    599 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 31, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda)

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 2006460120414 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 2006.