B2175 crash in Gravesham on 10 March 2009 at 19:20 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the B2175 in Gravesham at 19:20 on Tuesday 10 March 2009. The 40-year-old female driver of the Ford Mondeo and a 9-year-old female passenger in the Ford Mondeo were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2009
- Tuesday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44225, longitude 0.35525, in the DA11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northfleet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Town, Gravesham, DA11 0DQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460169574
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2175
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 226
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 29 November 2014.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 29 November 2014
At the same spotRef 2014460250175
Slight
Vauxhall Antara crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 1 September 2017
1 m awayRef 2017460217388
Slight
Wrightbus Streetlite crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 27 February 2017
9 m awayRef 2017460165599
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 26 December 2007
10 m awayRef 2007460151046
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 22 April 1994
10 m awayRef 1994460224175
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B2175 in Gravesham, 26 August 2022
11 m awayRef 2022461219146
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- 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 2009460169574 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.