A227 crash in Gravesham on 26 November 2016 at 13:15 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Honda CRV were involved in a crash on the A227 in Gravesham at 13:15 on Saturday 26 November 2016. The 26-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Nov 2016
- Saturday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Honda CRV
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40279, longitude 0.3561, in the DA13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Istead Rise. It is one of the crashes that make up the Istead Rise, Cobham & Luddesdown, Gravesham, DA13 9JQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460132535
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 227
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2005.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 14 December 2005
12 m awayRef 2005460119666
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A227 in Gravesham, 13 February 2002
12 m awayRef 200246NK71174
Serious
Mazda 323 crash on the A227 in Gravesham, 19 October 1992
12 m awayRef 1992460215818
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A227 in Gravesham, 29 May 1994
12 m awayRef 1994460224622
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A227 in Gravesham, 28 September 1997
17 m awayRef 199746NK10569
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A227 in Gravesham, 24 April 1999
19 m awayRef 199946NK18504
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda CRV
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2016460132535 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gravesham road accident statistics for 2016.