A226 crash in Gravesham on 12 March 2009 at 15:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Volkswagen Sharan were involved in a crash on the A226 in Gravesham at 15:30 on Thursday 12 March 2009. The 41-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 41-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Sharan were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 2009
- Thursday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Volkswagen Sharan
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42228, longitude 0.42615, in the DA12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Higham & Shorne, Gravesham, DA12 3HL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460169716
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 226
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 2007.
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 14 July 2007
At the same spotRef 2007460143959
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 7 February 2010
10 m awayRef 2010460182694
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 18 May 2011
10 m awayRef 2011460200807
Serious
Car crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 1 August 1987
54 m awayRef 1987463106367
Serious
Lexmoto Isca 125 crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 20 October 2025
65 m awayRef 2025461656914
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 17 August 2015
73 m awayRef 2015460260322
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Sharan
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Sharan)
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 2009460169716 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.