Unclassified road crash in Medway ME2 on 23 May 2008 at 10:45 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Medway at 10:45 on Friday 23 May 2008. The 16-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 2008
- Friday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39541, longitude 0.4979, in the ME2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rochester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Strood North & Frindsbury, Medway, ME2 2AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460057533
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 2015.
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Serious
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 2008460057533 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 2008.