Serious unclassified road crash in Medway ME7 on 27 July 2008 at 16:56 involving a Peugeot 206
Four vehicles, including a Peugeot 206 and a Vauxhall Vectra, were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Medway at 16:56 on Sunday 27 July 2008. The 22-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 206 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jul 2008
- Sunday, 16:56
- Vehicles
- 4
- Peugeot 206 and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3796, longitude 0.56358, in the ME7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gillingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Watling, Medway, ME7 4JG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460060207
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 1994.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 9 September 1994
22 m awayRef 1994460426100
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 28 June 1996
22 m awayRef 199646ME03212
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 19 June 1987
30 m awayRef 1987462205197
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 31 July 1983
30 m awayRef 1983462205543
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 16 February 1981
30 m awayRef 1981462201021
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 24 July 1982
30 m awayRef 1982462205412
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 3: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 4: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
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 2008460060207 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.