Unclassified road crash in Medway ME7 on 6 March 2018 at 03:40 involving a Ford S-Max
A Ford S-Max crashed on an unclassified road in Medway at 03:40 on Tuesday 6 March 2018. The 36-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Mar 2018
- Tuesday, 03:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford S-Max
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38947, longitude 0.54149, in the ME7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gillingham South, Medway, ME7 1ED area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460277119
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Authorised person
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2018.
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Ford Focus crash on the A231 in Medway, 11 November 2018
At the same spotRef 2018460347646
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Volkswagen Golf crash on the A231 in Medway, 23 May 2018
4 m awayRef 2018460296990
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Ford Escort crash on the A231 in Medway, 10 May 1992
9 m awayRef 1992460413411
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Rover 200 Series crash on the A231 in Medway, 2 May 1993
17 m awayRef 1993460418758
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 31 January 2007
17 m awayRef 2007460037301
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford S-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford S-Max)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018460277119 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Medway road accident statistics for 2018.