Unclassified road crash in Swale ME10 on 28 March 2018 at 15:18 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swale at 15:18 on Wednesday 28 March 2018. The male driver of the Ford Fiesta and a female passenger in the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 2018
- Wednesday, 15:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35149, longitude 0.7576, in the ME10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sittingbourne.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460281533
- 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
- Urban
- 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
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, 113 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 May 2019.
Serious
Car crash on the B2005 in Swale, 27 May 2019
113 m awayRef 2019460847437
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B2005 in Swale, 24 October 2022
116 m awayRef 2022461237731
Slight
Honda CB600F crash on the B2005 in Swale, 23 May 2014
164 m awayRef 2014460242112
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 29 February 2012
173 m awayRef 2012460211304
Serious
MAN crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 2 March 2016
179 m awayRef 2016460049966
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 1 May 2014
217 m awayRef 2014460241293
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 6,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018460281533 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.