Unclassified road crash in Medway ME8 on 2 April 2018 at 04:08 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza crashed on an unclassified road in Medway at 04:08 on Monday 2 April 2018. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 2018
- Monday, 04:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35079, longitude 0.59002, in the ME8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gillingham.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460283383
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- 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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 2019.
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 11 July 2019
13 m awayRef 2019460883104
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Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 7 January 2011
14 m awayRef 2011460195505
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Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Medway, 9 June 1991
35 m awayRef 199146BB43451
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 23 May 2001
36 m awayRef 2001464642664
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BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 9 October 2021
38 m awayRef 2021461097682
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 28 January 1980
49 m awayRef 1980462200840
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
- 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 2018460283383 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.