M2 crash in Medway on 27 September 2003 at 16:50 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Citroen C15 van were involved in a crash on the M2 in Medway at 16:50 on Saturday 27 September 2003. The 53-year-old male driver of the Citroen C15 van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2003
- Saturday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Citroen C15
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38151, longitude 0.47056, in the ME2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cuxton, Halling & Riverside, Medway, ME2 2BN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003464682885
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 228
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 1997.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the M2 in Medway, 24 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199746ME11912
Slight
Dennis crash on the M2 in Medway, 24 July 1993
At the same spotRef 1993460320079
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A228 in Medway, 23 February 1997
At the same spotRef 199746ME07097
Slight
Honda Prelude crash on the A228 in Medway, 27 May 1993
At the same spotRef 1993460319242
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M2 in Medway, 10 August 2012
10 m awayRef 2012460217085
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the M2 in Medway, 31 January 2003
10 m awayRef 2003467173903
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Citroen C15
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C15)
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 2003464682885 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Medway road accident statistics for 2003.