Unclassified road crash in Swale ME10 on 8 September 2012 at 18:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swale at 18:00 on Saturday 8 September 2012. A 39-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 2012
- Saturday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34557, longitude 0.75097, in the ME10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sittingbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Roman, Swale, ME10 3JX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012460217976
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 April 2012.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 28 April 2012
At the same spotRef 2012460213261
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 8 December 2005
At the same spotRef 2005460119441
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 17 January 2002
At the same spotRef 200246SW52535
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 9 June 2008
At the same spotRef 2008460158109
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 25 July 2012
At the same spotRef 2012460218356
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 3 July 1992
At the same spotRef 1992460514834
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- 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 2012460217976 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.