Unclassified road crash in Swale ME9 on 21 December 2005 at 14:18 involving a Suzuki Baleno
A Suzuki Baleno crashed on an unclassified road in Swale at 14:18 on Wednesday 21 December 2005. The 20-year-old male driver and a 25-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2005
- Wednesday, 14:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Baleno
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38962, longitude 0.74829, in the ME9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bobbing, Iwade and Lower Halstow, Swale, ME9 8SS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005460120169
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A249 in Swale, 15 September 1985
14 m awayRef 1985462408295
Slight
Car crash on the A249 in Swale, 7 December 1987
14 m awayRef 1987462411797
Slight
Car crash on the A249 in Swale, 9 March 1986
14 m awayRef 1986462402156
Serious
Car crash on the A249 in Swale, 10 April 1988
14 m awayRef 198846BD02948
Slight
Car crash on the A249 in Swale, 12 August 1979
14 m awayRef 1979466206149
Slight
Car crash on the A249 in Swale, 16 August 1987
14 m awayRef 1987462406767
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Baleno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Baleno)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Baleno)
- 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 2005460120169 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.