Serious A2 crash in Canterbury on 3 July 2007 at 20:10 involving a Renault Kangoo
A Renault Kangoo and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on the A2 in Canterbury at 20:10 on Tuesday 3 July 2007. A 52-year-old male passenger in the Renault Kangoo was seriously injured and the 52-year-old female driver of the Renault Kangoo and the 27-year-old female driver of the Rover 200 Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Jul 2007
- Tuesday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Kangoo and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23536, longitude 1.13825, in the CT4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nailbourne, Canterbury, CT4 5HP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007460143550
- 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
- 2
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2008.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 12 December 2008
At the same spotRef 2008460165923
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 26 June 1997
At the same spotRef 199746CT32283
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 30 August 2006
10 m awayRef 2006460130260
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 16 December 1998
14 m awayRef 199846CT08608
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 24 August 1999
14 m awayRef 199946CT05881
Slight
Lancia Y10 crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 19 June 1993
20 m awayRef 1993460612214
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Kangoo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 52 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Kangoo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Kangoo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2007460143550 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.