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Unclassified road crash in Canterbury CT2 on 3 February 2012 at 16:05 involving a taxi

A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Canterbury at 16:05 on Friday 3 February 2012. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
3 Feb 2012
Friday, 16:05
Vehicles
1
Taxi
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28362, longitude 1.07542, in the CT2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westgate, Canterbury, CT1 2SH area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2012460210498
Council area
Canterbury
Police force
Kent
Police attended the scene
No
Highway authority
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Other 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
4%
Estimated chance it was slight
96%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 November 2015.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Taxi or private hire car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    West
    Position at junction
    Leaving main road
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Journey purpose
    Journey as part of work
    Driver sex
    Male

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 2012460210498 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 2012.