M2 crash in Swale on 18 October 2012 at 13:03 involving a Renault Megane
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 2012
- Thursday, 13:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29488, longitude 0.81378, in the ME9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Teynham and Lynsted, Swale, ME9 0HD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012460219845
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 May 2002.
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the M2 in Swale, 10 May 2002
14 m awayRef 200246SW57882
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M2 in Swale, 29 June 2025
17 m awayRef 2025461609153
Slight
Mercedes GLC Class crash on the M2 in Swale, 6 January 2021
20 m awayRef 2021461014869
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the M2 in Swale, 11 September 2017
27 m awayRef 2017460221340
Fatal
Mercedes CLS Class crash on the M2 in Swale, 28 February 2021
28 m awayRef 2021461024439
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the M2 in Swale, 16 December 1996
42 m awayRef 199646SW06219
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
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 2012460219845 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.