B2006 crash in Swale on 20 December 2006 at 14:10 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B2006 in Swale at 14:10 on Wednesday 20 December 2006. The 21-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and the 50-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2006
- Wednesday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34168, longitude 0.74068, in the ME10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sittingbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chalkwell, Swale, ME10 4PL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006460135537
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2006
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 2004.
Slight
Dennis crash on the B2006 in Swale, 27 August 2004
At the same spotRef 200446SW98279
Slight
Car crash on the B2006 in Swale, 8 March 2005
At the same spotRef 2005460107374
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the B2006 in Swale, 17 June 2012
10 m awayRef 2012460215047
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the B2006 in Swale, 17 July 2022
11 m awayRef 2022461206711
Serious
Honda CBR900RR crash on the B2006 in Swale, 30 September 2007
14 m awayRef 2007460147255
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the B2006 in Swale, 22 December 2021
18 m awayRef 2021461126922
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,002 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 50, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha)
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 2006460135537 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 2006.