Unclassified road crash in Swale ME13 on 19 August 2016 at 15:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swale at 15:10 on Friday 19 August 2016. A 5-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 19 Aug 2016
- Friday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32095, longitude 0.89013, in the ME13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Faversham.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460100795
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
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
- 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
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 1991.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 2 March 1991
28 m awayRef 199146BH35131
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 2 November 2011
31 m awayRef 2011460206751
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 29 September 1991
31 m awayRef 199146BH51471
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 11 June 1996
31 m awayRef 199646SW03046
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 17 June 1998
38 m awayRef 199846SW05423
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 19 April 2025
45 m awayRef 2025461579871
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- 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 2016460100795 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swale road accident statistics for 2016.