A290 crash in Canterbury on 4 May 2008 at 03:10 involving a Toyota RAV4
A Toyota RAV4 crashed on the A290 in Canterbury at 03:10 on Sunday 4 May 2008. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 2008
- Sunday, 03:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota RAV4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28956, longitude 1.06147, in the CT2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westgate, Canterbury, CT2 8LJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460156703
- 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
- 290
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 2022.
Slight
Volkswagen Caddymaxi crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 27 January 2022
20 m awayRef 2022461139289
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 13 June 2009
22 m awayRef 2009460173286
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 19 June 2002
22 m awayRef 200246CT59231
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 22 October 2024
25 m awayRef 2024461513809
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 16 June 2023
28 m awayRef 2023461321107
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 4 November 2000
28 m awayRef 200046CT33187
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota RAV4)
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 2008460156703 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.