B2205 crash in Canterbury on 1 September 2006 at 13:45 involving a Saab 9-3
A Saab 9-3 and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the B2205 in Canterbury at 13:45 on Friday 1 September 2006. The 24-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Sep 2006
- Friday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Saab 9-3 and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3712, longitude 1.13403, in the CT6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Herne Bay. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heron, Canterbury, CT6 5NR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006460130423
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2205
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 2002.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 21 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200246CT58089
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 19 October 1992
At the same spotRef 1992460609042
Slight
Car crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 4 September 2006
At the same spotRef 2006460130407
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 4 September 1993
At the same spotRef 1993460613080
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 17 September 2001
At the same spotRef 200146CT46530
Fatal
Renault 5 crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 11 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199646CT29378
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Saab 9-3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2006460130423 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.