Unclassified road crash in Gravesham DA11 on 1 March 2014 at 19:09 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham at 19:09 on Saturday 1 March 2014. The 34-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 2014
- Saturday, 19:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43924, longitude 0.36186, in the DA11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gravesend. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pelham, Gravesham, DA12 1BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014460238754
- Council area
- Gravesham
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B262 in Gravesham, 15 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200246NK55482
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the B262 in Gravesham, 12 December 1991
At the same spotRef 199146CA17781
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B262 in Gravesham, 30 December 2006
At the same spotRef 2006460135635
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B262 in Gravesham, 16 May 1996
At the same spotRef 199646NK02580
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the B262 in Gravesham, 28 February 2007
At the same spotRef 2007460138537
Slight
Car crash on the B262 in Gravesham, 10 May 1995
At the same spotRef 199546NK29786
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2014460238754 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gravesham road accident statistics for 2014.