B2046 crash in Canterbury on 21 October 2013 at 07:55 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the B2046 in Canterbury at 07:55 on Monday 21 October 2013. The female driver of the Nissan Micra and the 21-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2013
- Monday, 07:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22513, longitude 1.19042, in the CT3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Aylesham, Eythorne & Shepherdswell, Dover, CT3 3BJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013460233540
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2046
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 5 August 2002.
Serious
Citroen Xantia crash on the B2046 in Dover, 5 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200246SK61703
Fatal
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the B2046 in Dover, 20 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199846SK03560
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B2046 in Canterbury, 26 August 2011
At the same spotRef 2011460204195
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B2046 in Dover, 15 October 2020
5 m awayRef 2020460992387
Slight
HGV crash on the B2046 in Dover, 30 April 2019
8 m awayRef 2019460839910
Serious
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 13 August 2025
12 m awayRef 2025461628146
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2013460233540 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.