Unclassified road crash in Swale ME10 on 31 January 2013 at 11:20 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Toyota Landcruiser were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swale at 11:20 on Thursday 31 January 2013. The 64-year-old male driver of the Toyota Landcruiser was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2013
- Thursday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Toyota Landcruiser
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34347, longitude 0.74883, 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
- 2013460223685
- 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
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 2001.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 18 January 2001
10 m awayRef 200146SW35457
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Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 14 August 2007
45 m awayRef 2007460145655
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 8 October 2020
49 m awayRef 2020461000311
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 7 December 2006
54 m awayRef 2006460134940
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 15 September 2005
54 m awayRef 2005460115378
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 9 September 2006
81 m awayRef 2006460130698
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Landcruiser
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,982 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Landcruiser)
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 2013460223685 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.