B2004 crash in Medway on 16 May 1997 at 22:10 involving a Ford Mondeo
A car and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the B2004 in Medway at 22:10 on Friday 16 May 1997. The 28-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 1997
- Friday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3935, longitude 0.54319, 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
- 199746ME08335
- 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
- T or staggered 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 1991.
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the B2004 in Medway, 17 February 1991
At the same spotRef 199146BB34711
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the B2004 in Medway, 3 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199746ME11115
Slight
BSA crash on the B2004 in Medway, 13 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199846ME13956
Slight
Car crash on the B2004 in Medway, 3 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199846ME15613
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B2004 in Medway, 5 October 2015
3 m awayRef 2015460262531
Slight
Ford C-Max crash on the B2004 in Medway, 13 April 2018
5 m awayRef 2018460285936
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
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 199746ME08335 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 1997.