A289 crash in Medway on 10 August 2010 at 18:25 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on the A289 in Medway at 18:25 on Tuesday 10 August 2010. The 32-year-old female driver of the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2010
- Tuesday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 400 Series and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40038, longitude 0.53024, in the ME4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chatham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Strood Rural, Medway, ME2 4XQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010460089660
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 289
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 May 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A289 in Medway, 3 May 2014
20 m awayRef 2014460241385
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A289 in Medway, 30 August 2012
20 m awayRef 2012460217762
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A289 in Medway, 14 May 2013
20 m awayRef 2013460227366
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A289 in Medway, 7 July 2008
22 m awayRef 2008460059451
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A289 in Medway, 30 December 2010
30 m awayRef 2010460095374
Serious
Audi Q5 crash on the A289 in Medway, 29 May 2025
33 m awayRef 2025461596291
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
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 2010460089660 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Medway road accident statistics for 2010.