A289 crash in Medway on 5 March 2016 at 19:00 involving a Mercedes CLK Class
A Mercedes CLK Class and a Honda Accord were involved in a crash on the A289 in Medway at 19:00 on Saturday 5 March 2016. The 33-year-old male driver of the Honda Accord was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 2016
- Saturday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes CLK Class and Honda Accord
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41358, longitude 0.51691, in the ME3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Strood Rural, Medway, ME3 8FE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460050275
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 289
- 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
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 July 2023.
Slight
Honda CR-V crash on the A289 in Medway, 12 July 2023
2 m awayRef 2023461333150
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on the A289 in Medway, 23 December 2003
5 m awayRef 2003464687515
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A228 in Medway, 5 October 2012
5 m awayRef 2012460219234
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A289 in Medway, 24 October 2008
5 m awayRef 2008460063776
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A289 in Medway, 14 October 2008
5 m awayRef 2008460063429
Slight
Gilera Runner crash on the A228 in Medway, 20 October 2006
5 m awayRef 2006460032839
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes CLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Accord)
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 2016460050275 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 2016.