A290 crash in Canterbury on 21 November 2014 at 19:59 involving a Renault Scenic
A Renault Scenic and a Ford Fiesta van were involved in a crash on the A290 in Canterbury at 19:59 on Friday 21 November 2014. The 53-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 2014
- Friday, 19:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Scenic and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31984, longitude 1.03162, 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
- 2014460249833
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 1998.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 18 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199846CT03605
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 4 December 2003
10 m awayRef 200346CT86436
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 17 November 2010
28 m awayRef 2010460194117
Slight
Taxi crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 5 October 2010
28 m awayRef 2010460191863
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 29 July 1999
28 m awayRef 199946CT04660
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 21 March 2011
42 m awayRef 2011460198243
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Scenic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2014460249833 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.