M2 crash in Swale on 15 December 1994 at 13:20 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405, a Mercedes 190 and a Rover 400 Series were involved in a crash on the M2 in Swale at 13:20 on Thursday 15 December 1994. The 53-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 405 and the 34-year-old female driver of the Mercedes 190 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 1994
- Thursday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot 405 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30311, longitude 0.84437, in the ME13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994460527754
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 July 2010.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the M2 in Swale, 6 July 2010
10 m awayRef 2010460188328
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the M2 in Swale, 3 September 2012
10 m awayRef 2012460217986
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the M2 in Swale, 29 December 2017
15 m awayRef 2017460258138
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the M2 in Swale, 12 July 2018
20 m awayRef 2018460314508
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the M2 in Swale, 3 November 2012
51 m awayRef 2012460220508
Slight
Ford KA crash on the M2 in Swale, 2 October 2003
51 m awayRef 200346SW83209
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes 190
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes 190)
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 1994460527754 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swale road accident statistics for 1994.