Serious unclassified road crash in Gravesham DA12 on 19 December 1984 at 09:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Gravesham at 09:05 on Wednesday 19 December 1984. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 1984
- Wednesday, 09:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43511, longitude 0.39543, in the DA12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gravesend.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1984463109114
- Council area
- Gravesham
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 1999.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 13 October 1999
30 m awayRef 199946NK08629
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 9 April 2009
50 m awayRef 2009460170965
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 20 July 2025
71 m awayRef 2025461622885
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 12 August 1996
98 m awayRef 199646NK03795
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 22 June 1981
100 m awayRef 1981463104431
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 23 April 1990
100 m awayRef 199046CA68960
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1984463109114 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gravesham road accident statistics for 1984.