Unclassified road crash in Medway ME2 on 12 October 2003 at 01:45 involving a Skoda Favorit
A Skoda Favorit crashed on an unclassified road in Medway at 01:45 on Sunday 12 October 2003. The male driver 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
- 12 Oct 2003
- Sunday, 01:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Favorit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4087, longitude 0.49877, in the ME2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rochester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Strood Rural, Medway, ME2 3FD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003464683489
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2108
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 1991.
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A289 in Medway, 14 June 1991
22 m awayRef 199146BA43641
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A289 in Medway, 29 June 1994
22 m awayRef 1994460325073
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 6 July 1986
22 m awayRef 1986462106276
Slight
Car crash on the A289 in Medway, 4 April 1989
22 m awayRef 198946BA03569
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B2108 in Medway, 31 July 2023
26 m awayRef 2023461343760
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B2108 in Medway, 3 July 2023
34 m awayRef 2023461326855
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Favorit
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,289 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Favorit)
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 2003464683489 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.