A227 crash in Gravesham on 28 August 2010 at 10:14 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A227 in Gravesham at 10:14 on Saturday 28 August 2010. The 75-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 2010
- Saturday, 10:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37154, longitude 0.36067, in the DA13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Meopham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Meopham South & Vigo, Gravesham, DA13 0AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010460190198
- 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
- 227
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 2006.
Slight
Nissan Terrano crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 21 August 2006
At the same spotRef 2006460130832
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A227 in Gravesham, 4 July 2011
10 m awayRef 2011460202155
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A227 in Gravesham, 25 July 2006
10 m awayRef 2006460129039
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A227 in Gravesham, 23 July 2010
10 m awayRef 2010460188901
Slight
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on the A227 in Gravesham, 16 December 2006
22 m awayRef 2006460135887
Slight
Kawasaki ZR1000 crash on the A227 in Gravesham, 5 August 2006
41 m awayRef 2006460130183
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- 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
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 2010460190198 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 2010.