A2990 crash in Canterbury on 5 September 2025 at 12:18 involving a Jeep Avenger
A Jeep Avenger and a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque were involved in a crash on the A2990 in Canterbury at 12:18 on Friday 5 September 2025. The 28-year-old female driver of the Jeep Avenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2025
- Friday, 12:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Jeep Avenger and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3534, longitude 1.04452, in the CT5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitstable. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tankerton, Canterbury, CT5 2LA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461637804
- 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
- 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
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 April 2004.
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 28 April 2004
4 m awayRef 200446CT92871
Slight
Car crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 2 February 2011
4 m awayRef 2011460196671
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 14 November 2009
9 m awayRef 2009460179240
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 28 July 2012
9 m awayRef 2012460216510
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A2990 in Canterbury, 20 December 2006
9 m awayRef 2006460135447
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A299 in Canterbury, 31 October 1996
12 m awayRef 199646CT28807
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Jeep Avenger
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jeep Avenger)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2025461637804 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.