A2 crash in Gravesham on 24 December 2007 at 18:17 involving a Nissan Sunny
A Nissan Sunny and a car were involved in a crash on the A2 in Gravesham at 18:17 on Monday 24 December 2007. The 30-year-old male driver of the car and a 17-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2007
- Monday, 18:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Sunny and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41032, longitude 0.37777, in the DA12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Singlewell, Gravesham, DA12 5EX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007460151428
- Council area
- Gravesham
- 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
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 August 1999.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 14 August 1999
10 m awayRef 199946NK05543
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 7 November 2006
22 m awayRef 2006460133474
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 6 August 2004
22 m awayRef 200446NK97431
Serious
Talbot Samba crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 4 March 1995
22 m awayRef 1995460228921
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 12 April 2005
32 m awayRef 2005460108765
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 11 December 2008
32 m awayRef 2008460165970
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2007460151428 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 2007.