Serious A28 crash in Canterbury on 28 August 2025 at 09:07 involving a Peugeot 3008 taxi
A Peugeot 3008 taxi and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A28 in Canterbury at 09:07 on Thursday 28 August 2025. The 55-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Aug 2025
- Thursday, 09:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 3008 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28442, longitude 1.0871, in the CT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canterbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Stephen's, Canterbury, CT2 7US area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461634212
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2248
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Footbridge or subway
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 2025.
Slight
Volvo XC40 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 9 June 2025
2 m awayRef 2025461600416
Slight
Van crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 30 April 2021
3 m awayRef 2021461043140
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 20 March 2014
5 m awayRef 2014460239587
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 8 October 2014
5 m awayRef 2014460247906
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 16 September 1997
5 m awayRef 199746CT00785
Serious
HGV crash on the A28 in Canterbury, 26 September 2011
5 m awayRef 2011460205139
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 3008
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 55, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2025461634212 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.