A28 crash in Canterbury on 18 May 2025 at 12:45 involving a Kawasaki ZX motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX motorcycle and a Toyota were involved in a crash on the A28 in Canterbury at 12:45 on Sunday 18 May 2025. The 51-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX motorcycle and a 46-year-old female passenger on the Kawasaki ZX motorcycle were 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
- 18 May 2025
- Sunday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki ZX and Toyota
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27421, longitude 1.0729, 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 3TR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461591768
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
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 13 August 1994.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 13 August 1994
1 m awayRef 1994460617874
Slight
Car crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 2 November 2007
1 m awayRef 2007460148692
Slight
Volvo S80 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 6 August 1999
1 m awayRef 199946CT04446
Serious
Van crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 29 December 1995
1 m awayRef 199546CT24334
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 6 February 2002
1 m awayRef 200246CT54676
Serious
Honda WW125 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 29 January 2023
1 m awayRef 2023461271353
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,043 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Toyota
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 51, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 46, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025461591768 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.