Serious unclassified road crash in Canterbury CT1 on 30 April 2017 at 15:19 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza crashed on an unclassified road in Canterbury at 15:19 on Sunday 30 April 2017. The 34-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Apr 2017
- Sunday, 15:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27751, longitude 1.09255, in the CT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barton, Canterbury, CT1 3YE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017460181493
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 March 2022.
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the A257 in Canterbury, 4 March 2022
14 m awayRef 2022461153649
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A257 in Canterbury, 24 January 2020
15 m awayRef 2020460924950
Slight
Car crash on the A257 in Canterbury, 24 December 1998
15 m awayRef 199846CT08740
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A257 in Canterbury, 26 March 2004
15 m awayRef 200446CT91946
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on the A257 in Canterbury, 21 January 1993
15 m awayRef 1993460610310
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A257 in Canterbury, 24 June 1993
15 m awayRef 1993460612213
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
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
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2017460181493 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.