Unclassified road crash in Swale ME9 on 31 December 2016 at 13:44 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on an unclassified road in Swale at 13:44 on Saturday 31 December 2016. A 27-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 13:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3557, longitude 0.64734, in the ME9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newington.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460146611
- 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
- 40 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 2025.
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Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A2 in Swale, 9 October 1997
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Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A2 in Swale, 8 November 1994
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Fatal
Rover 200 Series crash on the A2 in Swale, 3 March 1993
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Slight
Datsun Stanza crash on the A2 in Swale, 9 December 1992
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2016460146611 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.