A226 crash in Gravesham on 11 December 2000 at 05:20 involving a Kawasaki EX250 motorcycle
A car, a Kawasaki EX250 motorcycle and a Foden lorry were involved in a crash on the A226 in Gravesham at 05:20 on Monday 11 December 2000. The 41-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki EX250 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 2000
- Monday, 05:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Kawasaki EX250 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44904, longitude 0.32163, in the DA11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northfleet.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200046NK34263
- 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
- 226
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 2008.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 1 April 2008
At the same spotRef 2008460155342
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 6 July 2011
10 m awayRef 2011460202154
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 13 August 2001
10 m awayRef 200146NK45340
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 31 January 2006
10 m awayRef 2006460121386
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 20 March 2010
10 m awayRef 2010460184383
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 29 January 2024
13 m awayRef 2024461404511
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki EX250
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 249 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 3: Foden
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 41, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki EX250)
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 200046NK34263 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.