Serious unclassified road crash in Medway ME7 on 3 March 1998 at 15:43 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Medway at 15:43 on Tuesday 3 March 1998. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Mar 1998
- Tuesday, 15:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38744, longitude 0.54472, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199846ME13169
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 16 April 1992.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 16 April 1992
At the same spotRef 1992460413083
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 5 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199846ME15336
Slight
Bedford Midi crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 6 July 1991
At the same spotRef 199146BB44811
Slight
Ford Capri crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 17 September 1995
At the same spotRef 199546ME31478
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 18 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199846ME12950
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 14 December 1999
At the same spotRef 199946ME10978
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199846ME13169 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 1998.