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A226 crash in Medway on 19 August 1997 at 13:00 involving a minibus

A minibus hit a pedestrian on the A226 in Medway at 13:00 on Tuesday 19 August 1997. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
19 Aug 1997
Tuesday, 13:00
Vehicles
1
Minibus
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4025, longitude 0.47971, 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
199746ME09877
Council area
Medway
Police force
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
226
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
A
Second road number
289

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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 2004.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Minibus

    Minibus or motor caravan

    Manoeuvre
    Moving off
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    47 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Minibus)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 199746ME09877 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.