C road crash in Swale ME9 on 28 July 2004 at 22:19 involving a motorcycle
A vehicle and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Swale at 22:19 on Wednesday 28 July 2004. The 26-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 2004
- Wednesday, 22:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3479, longitude 0.70141, in the ME9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bobbing, Iwade and Lower Halstow, Swale, ME9 8BS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200446SW97034
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 January 2005.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A249 in Swale, 3 January 2005
14 m awayRef 2005460104908
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A249 in Swale, 19 July 1997
22 m awayRef 199746SW09308
Serious
HGV crash on the A249 in Swale, 28 January 2021
53 m awayRef 2021461021553
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A249 in Swale, 13 February 2003
57 m awayRef 200346SW72479
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A2 in Swale, 3 January 2005
85 m awayRef 2005460106837
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A249 in Swale, 16 April 1990
94 m awayRef 199046BD03250
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 200446SW97034 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 2004.