C road crash in Medway ME7 on 14 February 1989 at 20:48 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Medway at 20:48 on Tuesday 14 February 1989. A 54-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 1989
- Tuesday, 20:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38335, longitude 0.54651, in the ME7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gillingham.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198946BB01839
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 24 December 1985
At the same spotRef 1985462212115
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 25 November 1985
At the same spotRef 1985462211145
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 10 September 1982
At the same spotRef 1982462206392
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 30 January 1990
At the same spotRef 199046BB00900
Serious
Car crash on the A231 in Medway, 29 January 1983
100 m awayRef 1983462200653
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 4 May 1983
100 m awayRef 1983462203053
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 54, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198946BB01839 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Medway road accident statistics for 1989.