Unclassified road crash in Swale ME10 on 9 December 2010 at 08:35 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swale at 08:35 on Thursday 9 December 2010. A 9-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2010
- Thursday, 08:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34665, longitude 0.71254, in the ME10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sittingbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Borden and Grove Park, Swale, ME10 1QQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010460195058
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 1986.
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 25 February 1986
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42 m awayRef 200146SW44056
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67 m awayRef 2008460157030
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2010460195058 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.