C road crash in Gravesham DA12 on 16 January 2016 at 19:40 involving a Volkswagen Sharan
A Volkswagen Sharan and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on a C road in Gravesham at 19:40 on Saturday 16 January 2016. The 18-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 2016
- Saturday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Sharan and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43686, longitude 0.37296, in the DA12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gravesend. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pelham, Gravesham, DA12 1BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460266028
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 2023.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 2 July 2023
4 m awayRef 2023461331330
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 29 June 2020
7 m awayRef 2020460962719
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 19 June 2022
7 m awayRef 2022461195163
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on a C road in Gravesham, 19 December 2014
10 m awayRef 2014460251209
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Gravesham, 8 May 2010
10 m awayRef 2010460186093
Serious
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 10 December 1999
14 m awayRef 199946NK10786
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Sharan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016460266028 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.