A290 crash in Canterbury on 24 May 2011 at 13:02 involving a Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle
A car and a Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A290 in Canterbury at 13:02 on Tuesday 24 May 2011. The 26-year-old male rider of the Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle 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
- 24 May 2011
- Tuesday, 13:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Yamaha Ybr 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29199, longitude 1.0579, in the CT2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blean Forest, Canterbury, CT2 9EA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011460200445
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 2000.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 20 February 2000
At the same spotRef 200046CT13285
Slight
Mini One crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 8 February 2013
At the same spotRef 2013460224054
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 28 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199846CT06460
Slight
Car crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 31 August 2004
At the same spotRef 200446CT98538
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 13 September 2016
4 m awayRef 2016460115518
Serious
Van crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 16 July 1981
10 m awayRef 1981466105731
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Yamaha Ybr 125
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha Ybr 125)
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 2011460200445 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 2011.