Serious A2 crash in Gravesham on 20 June 2000 at 07:20 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle and a Peugeot 106 were involved in a crash on the A2 in Gravesham at 07:20 on Tuesday 20 June 2000. The 27-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Jun 2000
- Tuesday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda and Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42342, longitude 0.33875, in the DA11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200046NK25220
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 2003.
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 13 July 2003
14 m awayRef 200346NK79456
Slight
Scania crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 21 June 2003
20 m awayRef 200346NK78083
Serious
Car crash on the A2 in Sevenoaks, 4 February 1983
20 m awayRef 1983463200903
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 1 August 2009
22 m awayRef 2009460175225
Fatal
Toyota Carina crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 14 June 1993
28 m awayRef 1993460219432
Serious
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 5 July 1992
32 m awayRef 1992460214119
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 893 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 200046NK25220 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.