A28 crash in Canterbury on 7 August 2022 at 16:25 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia crashed on the A28 in Canterbury at 16:25 on Sunday 7 August 2022. A 76-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 2022
- Sunday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26971, longitude 1.05208, 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
- 2022461207367
- 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
- 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
- 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 29 October 1997.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 29 October 1997
1 m awayRef 199746CT01201
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 12 February 1982
9 m awayRef 1982466101152
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 7 August 2002
10 m awayRef 200246CT62810
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 28 May 2005
10 m awayRef 2005460110869
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 29 June 1999
10 m awayRef 199946CT02781
Slight
Lorry crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 2 April 2000
10 m awayRef 200046CT15193
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Fabia)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2022461207367 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 2022.