Fatal unclassified road crash in Swale ME10 on 18 July 2013 at 12:56 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swale at 12:56 on Thursday 18 July 2013. A 32-year-old male pedestrian was killed.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 18 Jul 2013
- Thursday, 12:56
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33806, longitude 0.73386, in the ME10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sittingbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chalkwell, Swale, ME10 4PL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013460229876
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 October 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 17 October 2000
At the same spotRef 200046SW31195
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 9 December 2005
At the same spotRef 2005460119861
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 26 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199846SW04370
Slight
Nissan Serena crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 3 December 1994
10 m awayRef 1994460527614
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 21 September 2019
14 m awayRef 2019460889731
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 17 May 2000
20 m awayRef 200046SW33279
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
FatalMale, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2013460229876 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.