M2 crash in Swale on 15 November 2007 at 01:34 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Volvo V70 were involved in a crash on the M2 in Swale at 01:34 on Thursday 15 November 2007. The 19-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Nov 2007
- Thursday, 01:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Volvo V70
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31479, longitude 0.7019, in the ME9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007460149471
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 2025.
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Audi A4 crash on the M2 in Swale, 29 June 2025
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Renault Megane crash on the M2 in Swale, 17 December 2010
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Rover 200 Series crash on the M2 in Swale, 16 June 2001
54 m awayRef 200146SW42500
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Car crash on the M2 in Swale, 24 June 1979
71 m awayRef 1979466204629
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Car crash on the M2 in Swale, 31 May 1987
71 m awayRef 1987462404527
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo V70
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 2,401 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 2007460149471 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.