Serious A2050 crash in Canterbury on 26 May 2011 at 12:57 involving a Renault
A Renault hit a pedestrian on the A2050 in Canterbury at 12:57 on Thursday 26 May 2011. A 48-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 May 2011
- Thursday, 12:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26991, longitude 1.09372, in the CT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barton, Canterbury, CT1 3YE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011460200573
- 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
- 2050
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- B
- Second road number
- 2068
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1995.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A2050 in Canterbury, 20 December 1995
10 m awayRef 199546CT24192
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A2050 in Canterbury, 24 September 2016
11 m awayRef 2016460111097
Slight
Car crash on the B2068 in Canterbury, 18 April 2023
11 m awayRef 2023461300517
Slight
Volkswagen Caddymaxi crash on the A2050 in Canterbury, 5 December 2022
12 m awayRef 2022461253847
Slight
Car crash on the A2050 in Canterbury, 14 January 2006
14 m awayRef 2006460120762
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A2050 in Canterbury, 7 October 1999
14 m awayRef 199946CT07391
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 48, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2011460200573 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.