C road crash in Gravesham DA12 on 27 February 2009 at 08:41 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle and a Skoda Octavia were involved in a crash on a C road in Gravesham at 08:41 on Friday 27 February 2009. The 18-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Feb 2009
- Friday, 08:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha and Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40072, longitude 0.38547, in the DA12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460169402
- Council area
- Gravesham
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 1990.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on a C road in Gravesham, 25 November 1990
50 m awayRef 199046CA86940
Slight
Land Rover 109 crash on a C road in Gravesham, 13 April 1995
82 m awayRef 199546NK29597
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Gravesham, 16 January 1998
133 m awayRef 199846NK12228
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Gravesham, 21 July 1989
157 m awayRef 198946CA43559
Fatal
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 15 March 2017
201 m awayRef 2017460164382
Slight
Fiat Fiorino crash on a C road in Gravesham, 28 June 2000
204 m awayRef 200046NK25317
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 2009460169402 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 2009.