Serious unclassified road crash in Swale ME10 on 8 December 2013 at 18:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swale at 18:00 on Sunday 8 December 2013. A 17-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Dec 2013
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32941, longitude 0.73851, in the ME10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sittingbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Woodstock, Swale, ME10 4QP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013460235501
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 120 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 December 1988.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Swale, 26 December 1988
120 m awayRef 198846BD11558
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 10 June 2018
139 m awayRef 2018460303058
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on a C road in Swale, 3 January 2009
143 m awayRef 2009460167378
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 19 April 2011
143 m awayRef 2011460199391
Slight
Bedford crash on a C road in Swale, 18 June 1994
164 m awayRef 1994460525131
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 19 November 1980
225 m awayRef 1980466209410
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Towing and articulation
- Other tow
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2013460235501 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.