Unclassified road crash in Swale ME12 on 12 March 2008 at 17:45 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swale at 17:45 on Wednesday 12 March 2008. The male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 2008
- Wednesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44024, longitude 0.76399, in the ME12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sheerness. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sheerness, Swale, ME12 2PE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460154661
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2007.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A250 in Swale, 13 December 2007
10 m awayRef 2007460150655
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A250 in Swale, 22 June 1997
10 m awayRef 199746SW08788
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A250 in Swale, 14 May 1994
10 m awayRef 1994460524831
Slight
Car crash on the A250 in Swale, 10 September 2002
20 m awayRef 200246SW63636
Slight
Chevrolet Kalos crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 11 April 2008
20 m awayRef 2008460155870
Serious
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 18 February 2021
22 m awayRef 2021461023346
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, 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 2008460154661 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 2008.