A226 crash in Dartford on 19 May 2016 at 01:56 involving a Peugeot Expert
A Peugeot Expert and a car were involved in a crash on the A226 in Dartford at 01:56 on Thursday 19 May 2016. The 64-year-old male driver of the Peugeot Expert was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 May 2016
- Thursday, 01:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Expert and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44684, longitude 0.26846, in the DA9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stone. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stone Castle, Dartford, DA9 9PP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dartford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460119964
- Council area
- Dartford
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 226
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 January 1999.
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A226 in Dartford, 22 January 1999
10 m awayRef 199946NK17278
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A226 in Dartford, 29 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200046NK34416
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A226 in Dartford, 18 October 2002
10 m awayRef 200246NK65822
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A226 in Dartford, 26 December 2001
10 m awayRef 200146NK54458
Slight
Volvo XC90 crash on the A226 in Dartford, 10 November 2023
13 m awayRef 2023461378503
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A226 in Dartford, 2 March 1995
39 m awayRef 1995460128871
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Expert
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Expert)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016460119964 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dartford road accident statistics for 2016.