A28 crash in Canterbury on 10 May 2009 at 15:50 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach and a car were involved in a crash on the A28 in Canterbury at 15:50 on Sunday 10 May 2009. The 66-year-old female driver of the car was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 10 May 2009
- Sunday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30128, longitude 1.12166, in the CT2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sturry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sturry, Canterbury, CT2 0AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460171899
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 291
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 December 1994.
Slight
Bristol (BLMC) crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 30 December 1994
At the same spotRef 1994460619718
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 13 May 1997
At the same spotRef 199746CT31594
Slight
Land Rover crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 16 December 1994
At the same spotRef 1994460619246
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A291 in Canterbury, 11 June 2025
8 m awayRef 2025461602207
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 16 August 1993
10 m awayRef 1993460612913
Slight
Car crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 25 November 1994
10 m awayRef 1994460619004
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 66, 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 2009460171899 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 2009.