A290 crash in Canterbury on 15 January 2014 at 17:56 involving a Honda Jazz
A Honda Jazz crashed on the A290 in Canterbury at 17:56 on Wednesday 15 January 2014. The 58-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jan 2014
- Wednesday, 17:56
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Jazz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32646, longitude 1.02632, in the CT5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014460237403
- 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
- 290
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 February 2014.
Serious
Volkswagen crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 22 February 2014
10 m awayRef 2014460238491
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 30 March 2015
20 m awayRef 2015460254851
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 30 March 2007
30 m awayRef 2007460139730
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 20 May 2013
30 m awayRef 2013460227527
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 4 September 2009
30 m awayRef 2009460176394
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 17 August 2019
43 m awayRef 2019460871888
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Jazz)
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 2014460237403 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 2014.