B2004 crash in Medway on 31 January 1994 at 08:05 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Kawasaki ZX900 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B2004 in Medway at 08:05 on Monday 31 January 1994. The 28-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX900 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 1994
- Monday, 08:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Kawasaki ZX900
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39273, longitude 0.54114, in the ME7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gillingham.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994460422927
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2004
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 1998.
Slight
Car crash on the B2004 in Medway, 31 October 1998
14 m awayRef 199846ME16075
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the B2004 in Medway, 10 October 2016
14 m awayRef 2016460116956
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the B2004 in Medway, 13 December 2012
22 m awayRef 2012460222015
Serious
Honda NS125R crash on the B2004 in Medway, 16 November 1994
22 m awayRef 1994460427283
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B2004 in Medway, 2 May 2023
30 m awayRef 2023461307567
Slight
Car crash on the B2004 in Medway, 13 October 1983
32 m awayRef 1983462207843
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZX900
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 908 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZX900)
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 1994460422927 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Medway road accident statistics for 1994.