Unclassified road crash in Canterbury CT1 on 14 November 2017 at 17:00 involving a car
A car hit two pedestrians on an unclassified road in Canterbury at 17:00 on Tuesday 14 November 2017. A 37-year-old male pedestrian and a 15-year-old female pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 2017
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28405, longitude 1.08662, in the CT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Stephen's, Canterbury, CT2 7US area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017460243644
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 April 1997.
Slight
Renault Extra crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 22 April 1997
10 m awayRef 199746CT31245
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 26 August 2013
10 m awayRef 2013460231485
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 22 October 2025
14 m awayRef 2025461658129
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 29 July 2002
16 m awayRef 200246CT61236
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 19 November 2019
19 m awayRef 2019460901403
Slight
Talbot Horizon crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 18 October 1991
21 m awayRef 199146EA18901
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 37, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- 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 2017460243644 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.