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A226 crash in Gravesham on 15 September 1993 at 19:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier

A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on the A226 in Gravesham at 19:00 on Wednesday 15 September 1993. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
15 Sep 1993
Wednesday, 19:00
Vehicles
1
Vauxhall Cavalier
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44129, longitude 0.37417, in the DA12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gravesend.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1993460220985
Council area
Gravesham
Police force
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
226
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Other junction
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
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 March 2022.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    36 years
    Engine capacity
    1,598 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    5 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)

    Pedestrian location
    In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1993460220985 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 1993.