A2 crash in Gravesham on 13 October 2010 at 14:18 involving a Porsche Boxster
A Porsche Boxster and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A2 in Gravesham at 14:18 on Wednesday 13 October 2010. The 35-year-old male driver of the Porsche Boxster was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Oct 2010
- Wednesday, 14:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Porsche Boxster and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42303, longitude 0.34045, in the DA11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Painters Ash, Gravesham, DA11 8EN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010460192143
- 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
- 2
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 August 1994.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 29 August 1994
14 m awayRef 1994460226068
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 9 June 2001
22 m awayRef 200146NK42123
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 17 October 1993
30 m awayRef 1993460221252
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 29 October 2008
32 m awayRef 2008460164153
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 29 June 1992
40 m awayRef 1992460214117
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 20 December 2001
42 m awayRef 200146NK52977
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Porsche Boxster
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol and LPG
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Porsche Boxster)
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 2010460192143 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.