Serious C road crash in Gravesham DA12 on 15 January 2000 at 15:20 involving a Vauxhall Astravan
A Vauxhall Astravan hit five pedestrians on a C road in Gravesham at 15:20 on Saturday 15 January 2000. There were five casualties: one person was seriously injured and four were slightly injured. Five of them were pedestrians.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jan 2000
- Saturday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astravan
- Casualties
- 5
- 1 seriously injured, 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43411, longitude 0.37512, in the DA12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gravesend.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200046NK12974
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Gravesham, 2 November 2000
At the same spotRef 200046NK31563
Slight
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Slight
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on a C road in Gravesham, 17 January 2002
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Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Gravesham, 9 September 2001
At the same spotRef 200146NK47641
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Gravesham, 18 October 1999
At the same spotRef 199946NK07564
Slight
Daewoo Espero crash on a C road in Gravesham, 23 December 2004
At the same spotRef 200446NK04399
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astravan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astravan)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astravan)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 3: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astravan)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 4: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 1, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astravan)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 5: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astravan)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- 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 200046NK12974 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gravesham road accident statistics for 2000.