Unclassified road crash in Medway ME3 on 23 December 2015 at 15:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Medway at 15:30 on Wednesday 23 December 2015. The 15-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2015
- Wednesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42513, longitude 0.5622, in the ME3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hoo St Werburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hoo St Werburgh & High Halstow, Medway, ME3 9DB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015460265359
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 June 2017.
Slight
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Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 25 July 2022
21 m awayRef 2022461205685
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 12 December 1999
34 m awayRef 199946ME10700
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 30 August 1979
34 m awayRef 1979462105969
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 26 January 1996
40 m awayRef 199646ME01013
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2015460265359 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.