Serious unclassified road crash in Gravesham DA12 on 11 July 2006 at 12:55 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham at 12:55 on Tuesday 11 July 2006. The 21-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and a 20-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Jul 2006
- Tuesday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40117, longitude 0.4118, in the DA12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Higham & Shorne, Gravesham, DA12 3HB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006460128335
- Council area
- Gravesham
- 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
- 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
- Dry
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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 2009.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2006460128335 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gravesham road accident statistics for 2006.