B2006 crash in Swale on 24 September 2000 at 00:29 involving a Suzuki AP 50 motorcycle
A Suzuki AP 50 motorcycle crashed on the B2006 in Swale at 00:29 on Sunday 24 September 2000. The 17-year-old male rider and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 2000
- Sunday, 00:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki AP 50
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34222, longitude 0.73296, in the ME10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sittingbourne.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200046SW29406
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2006
- 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
- 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 3 November 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the B2006 in Swale, 3 November 2015
At the same spotRef 2015460263447
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 17 June 2017
7 m awayRef 2017460196164
Serious
Car crash on the B2006 in Swale, 28 July 2000
10 m awayRef 200046SW26223
Slight
Volvo crash on the B2006 in Swale, 21 January 2004
10 m awayRef 200446SW88540
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B2006 in Swale, 15 December 2011
20 m awayRef 2011460208486
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 17 June 1995
20 m awayRef 199546SW30340
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki AP 50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki AP 50)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki AP 50)
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 200046SW29406 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.