A2990 crash in Canterbury on 24 May 2021 at 16:55 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a Suzuki Swift were involved in a crash on the A2990 in Canterbury at 16:55 on Monday 24 May 2021. The 27-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Swift was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 May 2021
- Monday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36146, longitude 1.09484, in the CT6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenhill, Canterbury, CT6 7RT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021461049540
- 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
- 2990
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 24 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 September 1995.
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 2 September 1995
24 m awayRef 199546CT22623
Slight
Land Rover crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 1 July 2000
31 m awayRef 200046CT25224
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 15 October 2025
40 m awayRef 2025461655015
Serious
Car crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 1 February 1988
60 m awayRef 198846EB01158
Serious
Car crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 4 April 1980
60 m awayRef 1980466302790
Serious
Car crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 23 April 1984
60 m awayRef 1984466302774
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 22 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Swift)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2021461049540 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 2021.