A2500 crash in Swale on 11 February 2018 at 17:28 involving a Vauxhall Insignia
A Vauxhall Insignia and a car were involved in a crash on the A2500 in Swale at 17:28 on Sunday 11 February 2018. A 67-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 2018
- Sunday, 17:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Insignia and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40996, longitude 0.80089, in the ME12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sheppey Central, Swale, ME12 3GR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460273645
- 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
- 2500
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 2018.
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on the B2231 in Swale, 2 November 2018
1 m awayRef 2018460347474
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A2500 in Swale, 14 July 2017
1 m awayRef 2017460204521
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 7 August 2017
2 m awayRef 2017460212266
Slight
Hyundai Kona crash on the A2500 in Swale, 4 December 2025
3 m awayRef 2025461678038
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on the A2500 in Swale, 23 December 2020
4 m awayRef 2020461013137
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A2500 in Swale, 20 May 2017
4 m awayRef 2017460205850
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018460273645 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 2018.