A225 crash in Dartford on 13 March 2017 at 19:30 involving a Toyota Auris
A Toyota Auris and a Suzuki AN 400 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A225 in Dartford at 19:30 on Monday 13 March 2017. The 50-year-old male rider of the Suzuki AN 400 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Mar 2017
- Monday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Auris and Suzuki AN 400
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43768, longitude 0.23541, 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
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017460164546
- Council area
- Dartford
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 225
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 260
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
- Dry
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 12 January 1998.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A225 in Dartford, 12 January 1998
5 m awayRef 199846NK12119
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A225 in Dartford, 26 October 2006
5 m awayRef 2006460132897
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A225 in Dartford, 17 December 2004
5 m awayRef 200446NK04090
Slight
Fiat Seicento crash on an unclassified road in Dartford, 29 March 2006
9 m awayRef 2006460124271
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A225 in Dartford, 14 January 2003
9 m awayRef 200346NK72798
Slight
Car crash on the A225 in Dartford, 29 August 1999
9 m awayRef 199946NK07241
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki AN 400
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 50, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki AN 400)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017460164546 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.