Serious C road crash in Canterbury CT5 on 15 May 2008 at 23:08 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 crashed on a C road in Canterbury at 23:08 on Thursday 15 May 2008. The 33-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 May 2008
- Thursday, 23:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35688, longitude 1.03924, in the CT5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitstable. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tankerton, Canterbury, CT5 2LA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460157387
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 1984.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 18 June 1984
30 m awayRef 1984466304724
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 24 September 1981
30 m awayRef 1981466308141
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 28 April 1982
30 m awayRef 1982466302862
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 9 July 1984
30 m awayRef 1984466305074
Slight
Rover 75 crash on a C road in Canterbury, 12 September 2008
32 m awayRef 2008460162037
Slight
Kia Shuma crash on a C road in Canterbury, 11 May 2002
32 m awayRef 200246CT57870
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
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 2008460157387 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.