C road crash in Gravesham DA12 on 10 December 2015 at 15:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Gravesham at 15:00 on Thursday 10 December 2015. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43209, longitude 0.40203, in the DA12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gravesend. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westcourt, Gravesham, DA12 1PQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015460264902
- 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
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 1998.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Gravesham, 13 August 1998
32 m awayRef 199846NK14983
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 18 December 1987
36 m awayRef 1987463110787
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 11 August 1987
36 m awayRef 1987463106517
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 21 October 1979
36 m awayRef 1979463107949
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Gravesham, 18 April 2010
51 m awayRef 2010460185709
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 13 September 2005
54 m awayRef 2005460115565
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2015460264902 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 2015.