Unclassified road crash in Swale ME12 on 13 August 2003 at 17:50 involving a Vauxhall Sintra
A Vauxhall Sintra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swale at 17:50 on Wednesday 13 August 2003. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Aug 2003
- Wednesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Sintra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42317, longitude 0.81259, in the ME12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Minster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sheppey Central, Swale, ME12 3SL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200346SW80960
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Sintra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Sintra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200346SW80960 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.