Unclassified road crash in Canterbury CT2 on 11 February 2017 at 17:40 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series crashed on an unclassified road in Canterbury at 17:40 on Saturday 11 February 2017. The 19-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 2017
- Saturday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30692, longitude 1.13426, in the CT2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sturry. 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
- 2017460157382
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 44 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 September 2010.
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 26 September 2010
44 m awayRef 2010460192051
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 9 April 1986
55 m awayRef 1986465102986
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 16 November 2017
70 m awayRef 2017460242702
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 27 July 2014
80 m awayRef 2014460245153
Fatal
Ford Transit crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 30 June 2011
81 m awayRef 2011460201997
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 3 November 2006
82 m awayRef 2006460133676
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2017460157382 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 2017.