Unclassified road crash in Swale ME12 on 8 January 2013 at 15:05 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swale at 15:05 on Tuesday 8 January 2013. A 27-year-old female 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 Jan 2013
- Tuesday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4233, longitude 0.80728, in the ME12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Minster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sheppey Central, Swale, ME12 3SL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013460222766
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 1980.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 21 January 1980
32 m awayRef 1980466400490
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 6 January 2009
78 m awayRef 2009460166944
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 21 August 1994
110 m awayRef 1994460525854
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 15 May 1999
120 m awayRef 199946SW00995
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 14 September 2001
126 m awayRef 200146SW46270
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 4 March 1981
130 m awayRef 1981466401641
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2013460222766 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 2013.