Unclassified road crash in Swale ME12 on 31 July 2018 at 19:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Seat Leon were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swale at 19:10 on Tuesday 31 July 2018. The 29-year-old female driver of the Seat Leon was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 2018
- Tuesday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42241, longitude 0.80344, in the ME12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Minster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Minster Cliffs, Swale, ME12 2DZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460318455
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2024.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 2 December 2024
3 m awayRef 2024461526589
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 19 October 1987
10 m awayRef 1987462409737
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 21 May 2005
10 m awayRef 2005460110578
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 9 July 1994
55 m awayRef 1994460525201
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 30 January 1983
106 m awayRef 1983466400653
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Swale, 15 September 1990
108 m awayRef 199046BF20740
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Leon)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2018460318455 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.