Unclassified road crash in Swale ME9 on 18 December 2017 at 08:37 involving a Volkswagen UP
A Volkswagen UP crashed on an unclassified road in Swale at 08:37 on Monday 18 December 2017. The 40-year-old female driver and a 10-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2017
- Monday, 08:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen UP
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28751, longitude 0.76627, in the ME9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017460255308
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Frost or ice
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, 98 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 2022.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen UP
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen UP)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen UP)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2017460255308 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.