Unclassified road crash in Dartford DA1 on 23 February 2017 at 15:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dartford at 15:50 on Thursday 23 February 2017. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2017
- Thursday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43869, longitude 0.23473, in the DA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dartford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newtown, Dartford, DA1 1RL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dartford
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017460162428
- Council area
- Dartford
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- 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 14 February 2018.
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Dartford, 14 February 2018
5 m awayRef 2018460274130
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A296 in Dartford, 8 April 1998
9 m awayRef 199846NK13349
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A296 in Dartford, 13 January 2024
16 m awayRef 2024461398764
Slight
Volvo XC40 crash on the A296 in Dartford, 11 April 2025
28 m awayRef 2025461578940
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A296 in Dartford, 3 April 2000
36 m awayRef 200046NK16189
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Dartford, 1 August 2014
45 m awayRef 2014460245187
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2017460162428 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 2017.