C road crash in Canterbury CT2 on 25 July 2013 at 08:15 involving a Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle
A car and a Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Canterbury at 08:15 on Thursday 25 July 2013. The 22-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSXR 750 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
- 25 Jul 2013
- Thursday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Suzuki GSXR 750
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29063, longitude 1.08923, in the CT2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Stephen's, Canterbury, CT2 7US area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013460230229
- 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
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 2010.
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Yamaha crash on a C road in Canterbury, 10 November 1994
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Car crash on a C road in Canterbury, 23 March 1992
10 m awayRef 1992460605885
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MG Montego crash on a C road in Canterbury, 9 May 1998
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Mercedes 190 crash on a C road in Canterbury, 20 July 1998
10 m awayRef 199846CT05803
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSXR 750
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSXR 750)
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 2013460230229 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 2013.