A28 crash in Canterbury on 12 October 2019 at 04:35 involving a car
A car crashed on the A28 in Canterbury at 04:35 on Saturday 12 October 2019. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2019
- Saturday, 04:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29061, longitude 1.1008, in the CT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Northgate, Canterbury, CT1 1ZG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019460902606
- 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
- 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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 January 2015.
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 1 January 2015
6 m awayRef 2015460251510
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 24 March 2015
9 m awayRef 2015460254551
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 23 March 2008
16 m awayRef 2008460154827
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 24 July 2007
18 m awayRef 2007460144456
Slight
Fiat 126 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 19 February 1991
18 m awayRef 199146EA02991
Serious
Car crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 29 October 1988
26 m awayRef 198846EA20488
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 30 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019460902606 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 2019.