A2 crash in Medway on 17 February 2004 at 23:05 involving a Ford Mondeo
A car and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A2 in Medway at 23:05 on Tuesday 17 February 2004. The 24-year-old male driver of the car and a 25-year-old male passenger in the Ford Mondeo were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 2004
- Tuesday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37335, longitude 0.55303, in the ME5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chatham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gillingham South, Medway, ME7 5PJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004460090553
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 1996.
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Suzuki Vitara crash on the A2 in Medway, 17 December 2018
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2004460090553 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 2004.