Unclassified road crash in Swale ME12 on 17 January 2012 at 14:55 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on an unclassified road in Swale at 14:55 on Tuesday 17 January 2012. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 2012
- Tuesday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41329, longitude 0.75891, in the ME12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Queenborough and Halfway, Swale, ME12 3RH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012460209452
- 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
- 40 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A249 in Swale, 21 March 1996
10 m awayRef 199646SW01694
Fatal
Honda crash on the A249 in Swale, 2 August 1997
14 m awayRef 199746SW09549
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 14 November 2015
41 m awayRef 2015460263953
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A249 in Swale, 3 December 2003
45 m awayRef 200346SW86148
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 12 November 2019
48 m awayRef 2019460899704
Slight
Ford C-Max crash on the A249 in Swale, 29 May 2010
51 m awayRef 2010460187242
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 2012460209452 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 2012.