Serious A2 crash in Swale on 17 November 1998 at 19:22 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A2 in Swale at 19:22 on Tuesday 17 November 1998. The 47-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Nov 1998
- Tuesday, 19:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30746, longitude 0.89444, in the ME13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Faversham.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199846SW07979
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 27 June 2011.
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A2 in Swale, 27 June 2011
At the same spotRef 2011460201777
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A2 in Swale, 5 March 2000
10 m awayRef 200046SW14370
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A2 in Swale, 9 February 2025
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Honda SH 125 crash on the A2 in Swale, 18 March 2025
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Car crash on the A2 in Swale, 16 October 2017
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Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A2 in Swale, 21 February 1992
32 m awayRef 1992460512413
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 47, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 199846SW07979 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 1998.