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A2 crash in Swale on 19 April 1997 at 01:01 involving a Ford Escort

A Ford Escort and a Peugeot 406 were involved in a crash on the A2 in Swale at 01:01 on Saturday 19 April 1997. The 18-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.

It happened after dark on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
19 Apr 1997
Saturday, 01:01
Vehicles
2
Ford Escort and Peugeot 406
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33829, longitude 0.74589, in the ME10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sittingbourne.

Map of where the crash happened in Swale

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199746SW07930
Council area
Swale
Police force
Kent
Highway authority
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
2
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
40 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
2

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, lighting unknown
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 2006.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Escort

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Nearside or offside crash barrier
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    18 years

  • Vehicle 2: Peugeot 406

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    33 years
    Engine capacity
    1,998 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    1 year

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)

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 199746SW07930 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 1997.