A2 crash in Swale on 7 December 2009 at 07:51 involving a Daewoo Matiz
Four vehicles, including a Daewoo Matiz and a Ford Mondeo, were involved in a crash on the A2 in Swale at 07:51 on Monday 7 December 2009. The 25-year-old female driver of the Daewoo Matiz was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2009
- Monday, 07:51
- Vehicles
- 4
- Daewoo Matiz and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34854, longitude 0.68508, in the ME9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Keycol.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460180883
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 September 2012.
Serious
Citroen C2 crash on the A2 in Swale, 2 September 2012
14 m awayRef 2012460218176
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A2 in Swale, 7 October 1982
28 m awayRef 1982466207982
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Swale, 2 August 2009
30 m awayRef 2009460175098
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A2 in Swale, 6 August 1992
32 m awayRef 1992460514648
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A2 in Swale, 26 July 2017
53 m awayRef 2017460209525
Slight
Bus crash on the A2 in Swale, 6 December 1998
54 m awayRef 199846SW08329
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Suzuki Alto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,061 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 4: Renault Twingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Matiz)
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 2009460180883 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.