Serious unclassified road crash in Swale ME9 on 18 November 2010 at 08:40 involving a Hyundai Amica
A Hyundai Amica and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swale at 08:40 on Thursday 18 November 2010. The 48-year-old female driver of the Hyundai Amica was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Nov 2010
- Thursday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai Amica and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3916, longitude 0.75214, in the ME9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bobbing, Iwade and Lower Halstow, Swale, ME9 8SS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010460193647
- 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
- 50 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 1994.
Slight
Freight Rover Sherpa crash on the A249 in Swale, 17 July 1994
10 m awayRef 1994460525334
Slight
Car crash on the A249 in Swale, 20 July 1998
20 m awayRef 199846SW05923
Slight
Honda CB500S crash on the A249 in Swale, 5 October 2004
22 m awayRef 200446SW01133
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A249 in Swale, 23 August 1995
36 m awayRef 199546SW31363
Slight
Car crash on the A249 in Swale, 15 July 1984
50 m awayRef 1984466405474
Slight
Car crash on the A249 in Swale, 23 August 2007
50 m awayRef 2007460145731
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Amica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai Amica)
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 2010460193647 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 2010.