Unclassified road crash in Swale ME12 on 6 May 2018 at 13:25 involving a goods vehicle
A goods vehicle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swale at 13:25 on Sunday 6 May 2018. A 39-year-old 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
- 6 May 2018
- Sunday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Goods vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3954, longitude 0.92812, in the ME12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leysdown-on-Sea.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460293889
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
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 17 August 1985.
Slight
Scooter crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 17 August 1985
30 m awayRef 1985462407345
Slight
Mini One crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 29 July 2011
36 m awayRef 2011460203180
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 19 April 1998
36 m awayRef 199846SW04142
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 14 September 1997
68 m awayRef 199746SW10298
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 2 July 1993
78 m awayRef 1993460519777
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 29 May 1997
85 m awayRef 199746SW08615
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Goods vehicle)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- 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 2018460293889 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.