Unclassified road crash in Swale ME13 on 19 May 2005 at 08:50 involving a Piaggio Typhoon motorcycle
A Piaggio Typhoon motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Swale at 08:50 on Thursday 19 May 2005. The 25-year-old male rider 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
- 19 May 2005
- Thursday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Piaggio Typhoon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31466, longitude 0.89522, in the ME13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Faversham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abbey, Swale, ME13 8JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005460110315
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 2040
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 2013.
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Peugeot 306 crash on the B2040 in Swale, 29 April 2002
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Nissan Silvia crash on the B2040 in Swale, 26 March 1996
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Typhoon
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Typhoon)
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 2005460110315 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 2005.