A290 crash in Canterbury on 21 November 2016 at 19:40 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 crashed on the A290 in Canterbury at 19:40 on Monday 21 November 2016. The 38-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 2016
- Monday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31486, longitude 1.03438, in the CT2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blean.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460135176
- 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
- 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, street lights lit
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 48 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 1990.
Slight
Vespa (Douglas) crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 17 March 1990
48 m awayRef 199046EA05710
Slight
Car crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 21 March 1987
48 m awayRef 1987465101787
Slight
Opel Rekord crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 16 October 1990
57 m awayRef 199046EA22280
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 7 December 2000
71 m awayRef 200046CT33300
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 11 January 2025
82 m awayRef 2025461540304
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 26 October 1999
85 m awayRef 199946CT07943
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2016460135176 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.