Serious unclassified road crash in Swale ME10 on 22 May 2009 at 15:23 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swale at 15:23 on Friday 22 May 2009. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 May 2009
- Friday, 15:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34694, longitude 0.72333, in the ME10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sittingbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Borden and Grove Park, Swale, ME10 1QQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460172393
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 1998.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 18 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199846SW08558
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 3 July 1993
28 m awayRef 1993460519705
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 23 October 2002
36 m awayRef 200246SW65737
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 1 October 2011
36 m awayRef 2011460205480
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 1 August 2020
49 m awayRef 2020460969836
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 6 February 1984
50 m awayRef 1984466200914
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2009460172393 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swale road accident statistics for 2009.