C road crash in Gravesham DA12 on 19 December 2014 at 08:36 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class, an Audi A4 and a Saab 9-3 were involved in a crash on a C road in Gravesham at 08:36 on Friday 19 December 2014. A 7-year-old male passenger in the Mercedes C Class and a 6-year-old male passenger in the Mercedes C Class were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2014
- Friday, 08:36
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mercedes C Class and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43695, longitude 0.37297, in the DA12 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
- 2014460251209
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 2022.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 19 June 2022
4 m awayRef 2022461195163
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 2 July 2023
10 m awayRef 2023461331330
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on a C road in Gravesham, 16 January 2016
10 m awayRef 2016460266028
Serious
Rover Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 19 January 1999
14 m awayRef 199946NK17355
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on a C road in Gravesham, 15 March 1992
14 m awayRef 1992460212633
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 29 June 2020
15 m awayRef 2020460962719
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 3: Saab 9-3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2014460251209 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.