Serious unclassified road crash in Medway ME4 on 13 July 2012 at 15:30 involving a minibus
A minibus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Medway at 15:30 on Friday 13 July 2012. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Jul 2012
- Friday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Minibus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36791, longitude 0.53031, in the ME4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chatham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Luton, Medway, ME4 5JB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012460216045
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 2019.
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Slight
Suzuki Liana crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 18 January 2002
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Slight
Kia Rio crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 28 February 2005
28 m awayRef 2005460007325
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 6 January 2010
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 8 February 2005
36 m awayRef 2005460006257
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Minibus
Minibus (8 to 16 seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Minibus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2012460216045 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Medway road accident statistics for 2012.