Serious B2205 crash in Canterbury on 18 July 2025 at 16:45 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla hit a pedestrian on the B2205 in Canterbury at 16:45 on Friday 18 July 2025. A 69-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jul 2025
- Friday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36813, longitude 1.11285, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461618076
- Council area
- Canterbury
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2205
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 1991.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 25 October 1991
10 m awayRef 199146EB19231
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 2 December 1998
10 m awayRef 199846CT08316
Slight
Nissan Prairie crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 28 July 2001
10 m awayRef 200146CT44254
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 18 April 1994
10 m awayRef 1994460616165
Slight
Nissan X-Trail crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 2 June 2008
12 m awayRef 2008460157938
Serious
Austin Allegro crash on the B2205 in Canterbury, 14 January 1997
24 m awayRef 199746CT29946
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 69, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2025461618076 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.