C road crash in Gravesham DA11 on 7 December 2006 at 08:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on a C road in Gravesham at 08:20 on Thursday 7 December 2006. An 11-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2006
- Thursday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42962, longitude 0.36136, in the DA11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coldharbour & Perry Street, Gravesham, DA11 7AB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006460134709
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 May 1995.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Gravesham, 22 May 1995
At the same spotRef 199546NK30030
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Gravesham, 18 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200146NK36402
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Gravesham, 22 July 1991
At the same spotRef 199146CA10551
Slight
Leyland crash on a C road in Gravesham, 15 May 1995
At the same spotRef 199546NK29937
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on a C road in Gravesham, 17 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200246NK64511
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on a C road in Gravesham, 15 October 2008
At the same spotRef 2008460163471
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2006460134709 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.