Unclassified road crash in Swale ME12 on 4 March 1981 at 08:55 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swale at 08:55 on Wednesday 4 March 1981. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Mar 1981
- Wednesday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42239, longitude 0.80618, in the ME12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Minster.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981466401641
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 1998.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 28 January 1998
36 m awayRef 199846SW02822
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 6 January 2009
61 m awayRef 2009460166944
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 14 September 2001
86 m awayRef 200146SW46270
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 21 August 1994
117 m awayRef 1994460525854
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 15 May 1999
121 m awayRef 199946SW00995
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 8 January 2013
130 m awayRef 2013460222766
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1981466401641 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swale road accident statistics for 1981.