C road crash in Canterbury CT2 on 10 December 2012 at 18:15 involving a Toyota Landcruiser
A Toyota Landcruiser, a car and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on a C road in Canterbury at 18:15 on Monday 10 December 2012. The 39-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat and the 51-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 2012
- Monday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Toyota Landcruiser and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29215, longitude 1.0483, in the CT2 postcode district. 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
- 2012460222178
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 November 1995.
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Canterbury, 12 November 1995
22 m awayRef 199546CT23620
Slight
Honda Prelude crash on a C road in Canterbury, 15 December 2007
40 m awayRef 2007460150721
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 23 November 1980
70 m awayRef 1980466109540
Serious
Suzuki crash on a C road in Canterbury, 5 March 2001
76 m awayRef 200146CT37614
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 22 November 1984
104 m awayRef 1984466109474
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 7 November 2016
106 m awayRef 2016460124187
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Landcruiser
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,164 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Volkswagen Passat)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, 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 2012460222178 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.