A2 crash in Canterbury on 4 May 2009 at 16:05 involving a Peugeot Partner van
A Peugeot Partner van crashed on the A2 in Canterbury at 16:05 on Monday 4 May 2009. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 2009
- Monday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Partner
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2533, longitude 1.12328, in the CT4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nailbourne, Canterbury, CT4 5AH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460172213
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 2004.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 26 May 2004
20 m awayRef 200446CT94177
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 13 July 2001
28 m awayRef 200146CT43494
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 17 October 2007
36 m awayRef 2007460148870
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 4 October 2002
36 m awayRef 200246CT64911
Serious
Car crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 6 July 1989
40 m awayRef 198946EA12719
Serious
Car crash on the A2 in Canterbury, 4 February 1983
40 m awayRef 1983466100853
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Partner
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Partner)
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 2009460172213 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.