Unclassified road crash in Gravesham DA12 on 29 April 2017 at 20:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and an Audi A2 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham at 20:00 on Saturday 29 April 2017. The 39-year-old male driver of the Audi A2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Apr 2017
- Saturday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Audi A2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41951, longitude 0.4347, in the DA12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Higham & Shorne, Gravesham, DA12 3HL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017460178926
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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 28 May 2022.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 28 May 2022
5 m awayRef 2022461188344
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 12 May 2025
5 m awayRef 2025461588864
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 25 February 1999
6 m awayRef 199946NK17779
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 23 June 1991
6 m awayRef 199146CA03671
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 22 September 1993
6 m awayRef 1993460220819
Slight
Honda crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 1 October 1992
6 m awayRef 1992460215512
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A2)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2017460178926 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 2017.