B2205 crash in Canterbury on 18 March 2025 at 08:15 involving a Ford Ecosport
A Ford Ecosport hit a pedestrian on the B2205 in Canterbury at 08:15 on Tuesday 18 March 2025. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 2025
- Tuesday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Ecosport
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36479, longitude 1.10862, in the CT6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Herne Bay. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Bay, Canterbury, CT6 8QZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461568536
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2205
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 2025.
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 6 April 2025
4 m awayRef 2025461574767
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 26 September 1997
7 m awayRef 199746CT00735
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 30 September 2010
7 m awayRef 2010460191709
Slight
Toyota Hiace crash on an unclassified road in Canterbury, 14 October 2005
7 m awayRef 2005460116755
Slight
Bedford crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 26 July 1994
7 m awayRef 1994460617428
Slight
Car crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 14 February 2015
7 m awayRef 2015460253080
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Ecosport
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Ecosport)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025461568536 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 2025.