A28 crash in Canterbury on 24 January 2015 at 16:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta, a Vauxhall Astra and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on the A28 in Canterbury at 16:00 on Saturday 24 January 2015. The 30-year-old female driver of the Mercedes C Class 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
- 24 Jan 2015
- Saturday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28667, longitude 1.0915, in the CT1 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
- 2015460252289
- 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
- 28
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 February 2019.
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 11 February 2019
9 m awayRef 2019460816662
Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 13 August 2011
10 m awayRef 2011460203596
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 11 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200046CT33564
Slight
Car crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 23 December 1994
10 m awayRef 1994460619401
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 29 September 2014
10 m awayRef 2014460247515
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 18 May 2017
13 m awayRef 2017460188024
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 3: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Mercedes C Class)
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 2015460252289 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 2015.