Unclassified road crash in Gravesham DA11 on 5 October 1992 at 12:15 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham at 12:15 on Monday 5 October 1992. The 35-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 1992
- Monday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43639, longitude 0.33621, in the DA11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northfleet.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992460215539
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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 slight injury crash on 4 October 2004.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 4 October 2004
10 m awayRef 200446NK00308
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 20 June 2004
10 m awayRef 200446NK95408
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A2260 in Gravesham, 13 February 2005
10 m awayRef 2005460107593
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 4 December 2004
32 m awayRef 200446NK03265
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 12 August 2025
34 m awayRef 2025461629229
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 8 November 2004
41 m awayRef 200446NK01861
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 1992460215539 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 1992.