Unclassified road crash in Medway ME3 on 9 March 2018 at 08:30 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Medway at 08:30 on Friday 9 March 2018. A male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Mar 2018
- Friday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43203, longitude 0.50197, in the ME3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cliffe Woods. It is one of the crashes that make up the Strood Rural, Medway, ME3 8JB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460285926
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- 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, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 May 1994.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 9 May 1994
30 m awayRef 1994460324301
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 25 August 2000
93 m awayRef 200046ME00390
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 10 April 1981
127 m awayRef 1981462102611
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 24 March 2002
136 m awayRef 2002465676102
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 9 June 1993
150 m awayRef 1993460319354
Serious
Mazda MX-5 crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 18 May 2022
166 m awayRef 2022461191519
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- 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 2018460285926 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.