Serious A257 crash in Canterbury on 22 May 2007 at 09:20 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a car were involved in a crash on the A257 in Canterbury at 09:20 on Tuesday 22 May 2007. The 58-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 May 2007
- Tuesday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27827, longitude 1.10762, in the CT1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barton, Canterbury, CT1 1GG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007460141900
- 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
- 257
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 2016.
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A257 in Canterbury, 28 September 2016
4 m awayRef 2016460112175
Slight
LML Star crash on the A257 in Canterbury, 31 December 2017
4 m awayRef 2017460258437
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A257 in Canterbury, 23 May 2015
30 m awayRef 2015460256918
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A257 in Canterbury, 31 October 2002
41 m awayRef 200246CT66972
Serious
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A257 in Canterbury, 27 July 2025
76 m awayRef 2025461621474
Fatal
Car crash on the A257 in Canterbury, 16 March 1983
76 m awayRef 1983466101733
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2007460141900 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 2007.