B261 crash in Gravesham on 11 August 1991 at 18:32 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B261 in Gravesham at 18:32 on Sunday 11 August 1991. The 25-year-old female driver, a 23-year-old female passenger and a 30-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Aug 1991
- Sunday, 18:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43271, longitude 0.38523, 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
- 199146CA08211
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 261
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 May 1981.
Serious
Car crash on the B261 in Gravesham, 24 May 1981
10 m awayRef 1981463103751
Serious
Car crash on the B261 in Gravesham, 10 December 1982
10 m awayRef 1982463109962
Slight
Car crash on the B261 in Gravesham, 27 June 1980
10 m awayRef 1980463104870
Serious
Car crash on the B261 in Gravesham, 28 August 1982
10 m awayRef 1982463106542
Serious
Volkswagen T-Roc crash on the B261 in Gravesham, 3 February 2025
11 m awayRef 2025461550020
Slight
Suzuki Samurai crash on the B261 in Gravesham, 15 July 1994
14 m awayRef 1994460225249
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 199146CA08211 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 1991.