B2001 crash in Medway on 1 August 2013 at 10:12 involving a Volvo V70
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 2013
- Thursday, 10:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo V70 and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44744, longitude 0.69448, in the ME3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013460230460
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2001
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the B2001 in Medway, 23 January 1980
30 m awayRef 1980462100530
Fatal
Volvo crash on the B2001 in Medway, 21 July 2008
50 m awayRef 2008460060197
Fatal
Car crash on the B2001 in Medway, 15 July 1988
104 m awayRef 198846BA05658
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2001 in Medway, 26 April 1986
104 m awayRef 1986462103946
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B2001 in Medway, 4 February 1982
104 m awayRef 1982462100862
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2001 in Medway, 17 September 1986
122 m awayRef 1986462108756
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V70
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo V70)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo V70)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 39, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 34, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
Casualty 5: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 2013460230460 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Medway road accident statistics for 2013.