Unclassified road crash in Medway ME7 on 14 November 2015 at 12:20 involving a Land Rover Discovery
A Land Rover Discovery and a Suzuki Splash were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Medway at 12:20 on Saturday 14 November 2015. The 50-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Splash and a 21-year-old female passenger in the Land Rover Discovery were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 2015
- Saturday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Discovery and Suzuki Splash
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34807, longitude 0.57508, in the ME7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gillingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hempstead & Wigmore, Medway, ME8 0TH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015460264071
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Raining, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2000.
Slight
LDV 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 23 December 2000
6 m awayRef 200046ME00683
Slight
Suzuki AP 50 crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 16 September 2002
39 m awayRef 2002466419302
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 4 September 1991
44 m awayRef 199146BB49321
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 23 July 1987
53 m awayRef 1987462206297
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 2 June 1981
53 m awayRef 1981462203881
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 9 January 1982
60 m awayRef 1982462200122
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Splash
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Splash)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Discovery)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2015460264071 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 2015.