A2 crash in Gravesham on 19 September 2012 at 07:50 involving a Triumph Street Triple motorcycle
A Triumph Street Triple motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A2 in Gravesham at 07:50 on Wednesday 19 September 2012. The 23-year-old male rider of the Triumph Street Triple motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Sep 2012
- Wednesday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Triumph Street Triple and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40115, longitude 0.41281, in the DA12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Higham & Shorne, Gravesham, DA12 3HB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012460218824
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 April 2018.
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Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 22 April 2018
7 m awayRef 2018460289599
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Renault Laguna crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 2 June 2005
14 m awayRef 2005460111017
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Fiat Brava crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 20 September 1996
20 m awayRef 199646SW04440
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Triumph Speed Master 865 crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 27 January 2020
20 m awayRef 2020460927604
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 6 November 2015
22 m awayRef 2015460263631
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Lexus IS200 crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 22 April 2009
22 m awayRef 2009460171398
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Triumph Street Triple
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 675 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Triumph Street Triple)
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 2012460218824 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gravesham road accident statistics for 2012.