A2990 crash in Canterbury on 1 June 2025 at 00:25 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Honda NSS motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A2990 in Canterbury at 00:25 on Sunday 1 June 2025. The 19-year-old male rider of the Honda NSS motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jun 2025
- Sunday, 00:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Honda NSS
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34133, longitude 1.02251, in the CT5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitstable. It is one of the crashes that make up the Seasalter, Canterbury, CT5 4PN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461597252
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 5 metres away, was a fatal crash on 1 March 2019.
Fatal
Ford Kuga crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 1 March 2019
5 m awayRef 2019460819962
Slight
Car crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 15 October 1986
17 m awayRef 1986465208966
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 22 April 1994
20 m awayRef 1994460616073
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 18 May 2005
21 m awayRef 2005460110507
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 5 May 1996
30 m awayRef 199646CT25994
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 25 August 2005
42 m awayRef 2005460114594
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,386 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Honda NSS
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda NSS)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025461597252 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.