Unclassified road crash in Swale ME12 on 24 December 2005 at 09:28 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza crashed on an unclassified road in Swale at 09:28 on Saturday 24 December 2005. A 16-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2005
- Saturday, 09:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39722, longitude 0.90633, in the ME12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sheppey East, Swale, ME12 4LH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005460120165
- 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
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 2231
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 January 2009.
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the B2231 in Swale, 7 January 2009
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Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the B2231 in Swale, 29 January 2008
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B2231 in Swale, 1 June 2008
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2231 in Swale, 3 February 2020
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B2231 in Swale, 14 June 1988
85 m awayRef 198846BF04948
Slight
Car crash on the B2231 in Swale, 21 October 1989
106 m awayRef 198946BF10839
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,272 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
- 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 2005460120165 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.