A2 crash in Swale on 26 July 2017 at 15:46 involving a Renault Clio
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 2017
- Wednesday, 15:46
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34856, longitude 0.68583, in the ME9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Keycol. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bobbing, Iwade and Lower Halstow, Swale, ME9 8BS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017460209525
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- 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
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 2009.
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Swale, 2 August 2009
23 m awayRef 2009460175098
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A2 in Swale, 7 October 1982
40 m awayRef 1982466207982
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on the A2 in Swale, 7 December 2009
53 m awayRef 2009460180883
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A2 in Swale, 1 March 2020
56 m awayRef 2020460943716
Slight
Metrocab Metrocab crash on the A2 in Swale, 8 February 2001
57 m awayRef 200146SW37061
Serious
Citroen C2 crash on the A2 in Swale, 2 September 2012
64 m awayRef 2012460218176
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- 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 2017460209525 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 2017.