B2205 crash in Canterbury on 30 August 2020 at 09:47 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the B2205 in Canterbury at 09:47 on Sunday 30 August 2020. The male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 2020
- Sunday, 09:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36371, longitude 1.0587, in the CT5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitstable. It is one of the crashes that make up the Swalecliffe, Canterbury, CT5 2QA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020460980217
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2205
- 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 with 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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 June 1998.
Serious
Nissan Primera crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 22 June 1998
14 m awayRef 199846CT05271
Slight
Car crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 6 October 1979
33 m awayRef 1979466307969
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 14 September 1993
54 m awayRef 1993460613199
Serious
Honda CBF 125 crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 24 October 2022
74 m awayRef 2022461234486
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 21 June 2025
82 m awayRef 2025461608352
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 4 June 1980
109 m awayRef 1980466304140
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2020460980217 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 2020.