A2 crash in Swale on 14 February 2007 at 17:15 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A2 in Swale at 17:15 on Wednesday 14 February 2007. The 31-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 2007
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34188, longitude 0.72432, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007460137861
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 2005
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 2010.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A2 in Swale, 30 October 2010
At the same spotRef 2010460192889
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A2 in Swale, 4 April 2011
At the same spotRef 2011460198753
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Swale, 29 December 2009
At the same spotRef 2009460181245
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A2 in Swale, 2 November 1995
At the same spotRef 199546SW32286
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A2 in Swale, 11 October 2008
At the same spotRef 2008460163518
Serious
Mazda 323 crash on the A2 in Swale, 17 March 1997
10 m awayRef 199746SW07546
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 31, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2007460137861 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 2007.