C road crash in Swale ME10 on 18 December 2008 at 16:56 involving a Jinlun JL 125 motorcycle
A Jinlun JL 125 motorcycle crashed on a C road in Swale at 16:56 on Thursday 18 December 2008. The 25-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2008
- Thursday, 16:56
- Vehicles
- 1
- Jinlun JL 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3414, longitude 0.75229, in the ME10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sittingbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Roman, Swale, ME10 3JX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460166285
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- 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 25 March 2010.
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Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in Swale, 25 March 2010
10 m awayRef 2010460184992
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 3 January 2018
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Rover Maestro crash on a C road in Swale, 25 July 2001
20 m awayRef 200146SW44318
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Ford Granada crash on a C road in Swale, 19 January 1994
20 m awayRef 1994460522704
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Toyota Carina crash on a C road in Swale, 16 May 2001
22 m awayRef 200146SW40854
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Honda Civic crash on a C road in Swale, 2 February 2004
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Jinlun JL 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Jinlun JL 125)
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 2008460166285 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.