A290 crash in Canterbury on 5 June 2025 at 11:21 involving a Volkswagen Touran
A motorcycle and a Volkswagen Touran were involved in a crash on the A290 in Canterbury at 11:21 on Thursday 5 June 2025. The 22-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jun 2025
- Thursday, 11:21
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Volkswagen Touran
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31708, longitude 1.03345, in the CT5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461599708
- 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
- 290
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2020.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 23 March 2020
7 m awayRef 2020460943229
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 21 September 2023
8 m awayRef 2023461372142
Slight
Suzuki UK 110 crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 1 April 2024
8 m awayRef 2024461427240
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 29 July 2000
22 m awayRef 200046CT26221
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 13 June 1995
23 m awayRef 199546CT21512
Slight
Car crash on the A290 in Canterbury, 13 August 1983
28 m awayRef 1983466106493
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Touran
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 2025461599708 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.