A226 crash in Gravesham on 10 December 2008 at 14:45 involving a Honda Prelude
A Honda Prelude and a Honda Jazz were involved in a crash on the A226 in Gravesham at 14:45 on Wednesday 10 December 2008. The 50-year-old female driver of the Honda Jazz and a 50-year-old female passenger in the Honda Jazz were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 2008
- Wednesday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Prelude and Honda Jazz
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43874, longitude 0.3863, in the DA12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gravesend. It is one of the crashes that make up the Town, Gravesham, DA12 2SB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460165969
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 226
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 1998.
Slight
Car crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 28 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199846NK15167
Slight
MAN crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 18 May 2000
At the same spotRef 200046NK24223
Serious
Mazda 626 crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 16 September 1992
At the same spotRef 1992460215240
Serious
Car crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 7 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200146NK35242
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 9 October 2002
At the same spotRef 200246NK68334
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 4 January 1997
At the same spotRef 199746NK06909
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Prelude
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,259 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Jazz)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Jazz)
- 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 2008460165969 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 2008.