Unclassified road crash in Swale ME10 on 10 August 2009 at 09:09 involving a Renault Laguna taxi
A vehicle and a Renault Laguna taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swale at 09:09 on Monday 10 August 2009. The 12-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 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
- 10 Aug 2009
- Monday, 09:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35793, longitude 0.74567, in the ME10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sittingbourne.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460175463
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
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The nearest, 99 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 2005.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- Driver age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Laguna
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 12, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
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 2009460175463 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.