A28 crash in Canterbury on 25 December 2019 at 17:54 involving a Mercedes Vito van
A Mercedes Vito van and a car were involved in a crash on the A28 in Canterbury at 17:54 on Wednesday 25 December 2019. The 52-year-old male driver of the Mercedes Vito van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2019
- Wednesday, 17:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Vito and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26996, longitude 1.05597, 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
- 2019460915836
- 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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 March 1997.
Slight
Daewoo Nexia crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 22 March 1997
11 m awayRef 199746CT30864
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 13 September 1996
14 m awayRef 199646CT28478
Slight
LDV 400 Series crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 29 March 2000
29 m awayRef 200046CT15158
Serious
Mazda 323 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 28 January 2005
29 m awayRef 2005460105696
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 25 February 2008
38 m awayRef 2008460153722
Serious
Car crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 10 July 1979
57 m awayRef 1979466104989
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Vito
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Vito)
- 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 2019460915836 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.