B2163 crash in Swale on 18 March 2003 at 19:00 involving a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle
A car and a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B2163 in Swale at 19:00 on Tuesday 18 March 2003. The 42-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 2003
- Tuesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Kawasaki ZX600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33783, longitude 0.73988, in the ME10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sittingbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chalkwell, Swale, ME10 4PL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200346SW73809
- 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
- 2163
- 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 serious injury crash on 4 September 2001.
Serious
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the B2163 in Swale, 4 September 2001
At the same spotRef 200146SW45876
Serious
Yamaha DT crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 17 January 2024
10 m awayRef 2024461400066
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B2163 in Swale, 28 February 1996
10 m awayRef 199646SW01407
Serious
Renault 21 crash on the B2163 in Swale, 1 June 2000
10 m awayRef 200046SW23800
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B2163 in Swale, 6 March 1998
10 m awayRef 199846SW03707
Slight
Talbot Horizon crash on the B2163 in Swale, 7 July 1992
10 m awayRef 1992460514205
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZX600)
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 200346SW73809 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 2003.