Unclassified road crash in Medway ME7 on 11 May 2016 at 17:45 involving a Vauxhall Vivaro van
A Vauxhall Vivaro van and a Volkswagen Tiguan were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Medway at 17:45 on Wednesday 11 May 2016. The 23-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vivaro van and a 14-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Vauxhall Vivaro van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 May 2016
- Wednesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vivaro and Volkswagen Tiguan
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39612, longitude 0.5499, in the ME7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gillingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gillingham North, Medway, ME7 1RB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460076782
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2004
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 2025.
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Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 27 April 2017
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Mercedes C Class crash on the A289 in Medway, 12 January 2025
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Ford Sierra crash on the A289 in Medway, 16 March 2004
6 m awayRef 2004460091003
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A229 in Medway, 22 April 2000
7 m awayRef 200046ME00167
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vivaro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,463 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Tiguan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vivaro)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vivaro)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2016460076782 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.