A290 crash in Canterbury on 11 February 2014 at 16:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on the A290 in Canterbury at 16:30 on Tuesday 11 February 2014. A 35-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 2014
- Tuesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29291, longitude 1.05739, in the CT2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. 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
- 2014460238100
- 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
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 27 June 2016
2 m awayRef 2016460083378
Slight
Hyundai i20 crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 18 November 2019
9 m awayRef 2019460904438
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 15 October 2022
9 m awayRef 2022461236811
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 4 October 2020
10 m awayRef 2020460988056
Slight
Ford crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 27 July 1991
10 m awayRef 199146EA13011
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 10 October 1995
10 m awayRef 199546CT23380
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2014460238100 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.