Unclassified road crash in Medway ME2 on 23 December 2004 at 18:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Medway at 18:05 on Thursday 23 December 2004. A 72-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2004
- Thursday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40553, longitude 0.49989, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004460106293
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2003.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 19 October 2003
10 m awayRef 2003464684219
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 1 October 1982
50 m awayRef 1982462107352
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 8 August 1980
67 m awayRef 1980462105860
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Medway, 25 July 1989
67 m awayRef 198946BA07669
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 18 April 1980
67 m awayRef 1980462102810
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 15 December 2012
70 m awayRef 2012460222085
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 72, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2004460106293 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.