A289 crash in Medway on 19 December 1995 at 07:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Honda Accord were involved in a crash on the A289 in Medway at 07:00 on Tuesday 19 December 1995. The 40-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 1995
- Tuesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Honda Accord
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40058, longitude 0.47285, in the ME2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rochester.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199546ME00512
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 289
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 289
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1995.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A289 in Medway, 22 June 1995
32 m awayRef 199546ME30496
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 8 April 2003
32 m awayRef 2003467465103
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 28 November 2015
32 m awayRef 2015460264485
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 9 June 1987
41 m awayRef 1987462104857
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A289 in Medway, 20 April 1983
41 m awayRef 1983462102663
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A289 in Medway, 6 April 1990
41 m awayRef 199046BA03070
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,602 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199546ME00512 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 1995.