A226 crash in Gravesham on 22 December 1991 at 14:30 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A car and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A226 in Gravesham at 14:30 on Sunday 22 December 1991. A 25-year-old female passenger on the Yamaha motorcycle and the 27-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1991
- Sunday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42777, longitude 0.41533, in the DA12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199146CA18411
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 226
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 September 2005.
Serious
Nissan Primera crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 8 September 2005
10 m awayRef 2005460114973
Serious
Car crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 14 August 1998
28 m awayRef 199846NK14805
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 12 December 2010
50 m awayRef 2010460195050
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 16 December 1989
130 m awayRef 198946CA56019
Slight
Car crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 20 February 1982
130 m awayRef 1982463101172
Slight
Car crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 16 June 1979
158 m awayRef 1979463104359
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Yamaha)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Yamaha)
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 199146CA18411 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.