Serious A28 crash in Canterbury on 25 February 2008 at 09:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A28 in Canterbury at 09:10 on Monday 25 February 2008. A 45-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Feb 2008
- Monday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2697, longitude 1.06072, in the CT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wincheap, Canterbury, CT1 3TR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460153867
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 2002.
Slight
Yamaha FZS 600 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 10 February 2002
10 m awayRef 200246CT53715
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 6 July 2008
10 m awayRef 2008460159608
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 1 December 2003
10 m awayRef 200346CT86533
Slight
Ford Transit Courier crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 16 November 2021
14 m awayRef 2021461113054
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 14 June 1999
20 m awayRef 199946CT02539
Slight
Toyota Previa crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 24 August 1999
20 m awayRef 199946CT06791
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (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 2008460153867 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 2008.