Serious unclassified road crash in Swale ME12 on 15 December 2005 at 10:10 involving a Sym DD motorcycle
A Sym DD motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Swale at 10:10 on Thursday 15 December 2005. The 66-year-old female rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Dec 2005
- Thursday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Sym DD
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42973, longitude 0.79789, in the ME12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Minster.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005460119750
- 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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Sym DD
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 66, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Sym DD)
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 2005460119750 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.