A289 crash in Medway on 11 February 2009 at 06:05 involving a Renault Clio
A car and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the A289 in Medway at 06:05 on Wednesday 11 February 2009. The 22-year-old male driver of the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 2009
- Wednesday, 06:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40013, longitude 0.53324, in the ME4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gillingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chatham Central & Brompton, Medway, ME7 5SW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460068634
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 289
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2010.
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A289 in Medway, 5 March 2010
At the same spotRef 2010460083775
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A289 in Medway, 11 December 2010
At the same spotRef 2010460094608
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 16 April 2007
At the same spotRef 2007460040243
Slight
Triumph Daytona 600 crash on the A289 in Medway, 20 May 2007
At the same spotRef 2007460041667
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A289 in Medway, 17 June 2010
At the same spotRef 2010460087524
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A289 in Medway, 26 September 2007
At the same spotRef 2007460047050
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
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 2009460068634 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 2009.