Unclassified road crash in Medway ME4 on 16 April 2007 at 19:35 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Medway at 19:35 on Monday 16 April 2007. The 54-year-old male driver of the Toyota Yaris was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 50 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2007
- Monday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40013, longitude 0.53324, in the ME4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gillingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chatham Central & Brompton, Medway, ME7 5SW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007460040243
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 289
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2010.
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A289 in Medway, 5 March 2010
At the same spotRef 2010460083775
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A289 in Medway, 11 December 2010
At the same spotRef 2010460094608
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A289 in Medway, 11 February 2009
At the same spotRef 2009460068634
Slight
Triumph Daytona 600 crash on the A289 in Medway, 20 May 2007
At the same spotRef 2007460041667
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A289 in Medway, 17 June 2010
At the same spotRef 2010460087524
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A289 in Medway, 26 September 2007
At the same spotRef 2007460047050
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
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 2007460040243 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Medway road accident statistics for 2007.