A2 crash in Swale on 24 January 2000 at 22:10 involving a Nissan Bluebird
A car and a Nissan Bluebird were involved in a crash on the A2 in Swale at 22:10 on Monday 24 January 2000. The 23-year-old male driver of the Nissan Bluebird and a 21-year-old male passenger in the Nissan Bluebird were slightly injured.
It happened after dark on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2000
- Monday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Nissan Bluebird
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32351, longitude 0.81625, in the ME9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200046SW12822
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 2000.
Slight
Daihatsu Charade crash on the A2 in Swale, 12 October 2000
At the same spotRef 200046SW30285
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A2 in Swale, 23 July 2003
At the same spotRef 200346SW79618
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Rover 200 Series crash on the A2 in Swale, 27 February 1996
At the same spotRef 199646SW01437
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Audi A4 crash on the A2 in Swale, 8 May 2003
At the same spotRef 200346SW76154
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Peugeot 405 crash on the A2 in Swale, 31 July 2004
At the same spotRef 200446SW97219
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Ford Escort crash on the A2 in Swale, 16 August 1997
At the same spotRef 199746SW09816
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Bluebird)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Bluebird)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200046SW12822 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 2000.