A28 crash in Canterbury on 12 June 2018 at 06:35 involving a Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle and a Peugeot Partner van were involved in a crash on the A28 in Canterbury at 06:35 on Tuesday 12 June 2018. The 18-year-old male rider of the Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jun 2018
- Tuesday, 06:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha Ybr 125 and Peugeot Partner
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2698, longitude 1.05241, in the CT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wincheap, Canterbury, CT1 3FA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460307158
- 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
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 9 May 1998.
Slight
Rover Sterling crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 9 May 1998
1 m awayRef 199846CT04482
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 12 April 1999
9 m awayRef 199946CT00418
Slight
Lorry crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 2 April 2000
14 m awayRef 200046CT15193
Serious
Kymco Zing crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 28 October 2004
14 m awayRef 200446CT01665
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 29 June 1999
14 m awayRef 199946CT02781
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 7 August 2002
14 m awayRef 200246CT62810
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha Ybr 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Partner
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha Ybr 125)
- 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 2018460307158 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 2018.