Serious A2990 crash in Canterbury on 27 March 2016 at 17:28 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on the A2990 in Canterbury at 17:28 on Sunday 27 March 2016. The 51-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Mar 2016
- Sunday, 17:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35954, longitude 1.06697, in the CT5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitstable. It is one of the crashes that make up the Swalecliffe, Canterbury, CT5 2QA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460056895
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2990
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 2012.
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 12 October 2012
4 m awayRef 2012460219575
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 9 April 2008
9 m awayRef 2008460155733
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 13 June 1994
10 m awayRef 1994460616879
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 23 February 2004
10 m awayRef 200446CT90038
Slight
Honda CB125T crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 5 November 1992
13 m awayRef 1992460609187
Slight
Car crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 24 May 2013
13 m awayRef 2013460227796
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016460056895 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 2016.