Unclassified road crash in Medway ME8 on 23 March 2009 at 13:40 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 and an Aprilia RS50 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Medway at 13:40 on Monday 23 March 2009. The male rider of the Aprilia RS50 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2009
- Monday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A4 and Aprilia RS50
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37059, longitude 0.59254, in the ME8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gillingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rainham North, Medway, ME8 7AG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460070077
- 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
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 2004.
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 12 February 1992
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Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 2 April 2015
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 18 August 1999
28 m awayRef 199946ME04967
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 14 December 1987
50 m awayRef 1987462211887
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- 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
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,771 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Aprilia RS50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 50 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Aprilia RS50)
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 2009460070077 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.