A250 crash in Swale on 31 December 2002 at 22:01 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis and a car were involved in a crash on the A250 in Swale at 22:01 on Tuesday 31 December 2002. The 24-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2002
- Tuesday, 22:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42035, longitude 0.76855, in the ME12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Halfway Houses. It is one of the crashes that make up the Queenborough and Halfway, Swale, ME12 3AU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200246SW70396
- 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
- 250
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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 serious injury crash on 7 December 2000.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A250 in Swale, 7 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200046SW33374
Slight
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on the A250 in Swale, 25 September 2004
At the same spotRef 200446SW99813
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A250 in Swale, 19 December 2001
At the same spotRef 200146SW51289
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the A250 in Swale, 22 July 1995
At the same spotRef 199546SW30862
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A250 in Swale, 21 June 2001
At the same spotRef 200146SW43321
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A250 in Swale, 20 March 1993
At the same spotRef 1993460518218
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 200246SW70396 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 2002.