A226 crash in Gravesham on 3 November 1989 at 23:35 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A226 in Gravesham at 23:35 on Friday 3 November 1989. The 62-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and a 63-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 1989
- Friday, 23:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44369, longitude 0.37141, in the DA12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gravesend.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198946CA52189
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 226
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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 3 July 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 3 July 1982
At the same spotRef 1982463105112
Slight
Car crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 27 January 1982
At the same spotRef 1982463100532
Slight
Car crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 10 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198946CA42589
Serious
Car crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 13 April 1985
At the same spotRef 1985463102995
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 28 March 1987
At the same spotRef 1987463102047
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 11 March 2023
31 m awayRef 2023461287719
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198946CA52189 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 1989.