A28 crash in Canterbury on 4 November 2016 at 02:41 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia crashed on the A28 in Canterbury at 02:41 on Friday 4 November 2016. The 67-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2016
- Friday, 02:41
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31001, longitude 1.14563, in the CT2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sturry, Canterbury, CT2 0EU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460126931
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1993.
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 20 December 1993
14 m awayRef 1993460614636
Slight
Toyota Starlet crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 22 October 1994
21 m awayRef 1994460618614
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 14 June 1996
32 m awayRef 199646CT26642
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 24 February 2021
40 m awayRef 2021461025283
Serious
Car crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 31 August 1981
41 m awayRef 1981466107331
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 4 May 1991
44 m awayRef 199146EA07691
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Fabia)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2016460126931 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.