Unclassified road crash in Swale ME12 on 16 September 2018 at 17:17 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Mercedes E Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swale at 17:17 on Sunday 16 September 2018. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 2018
- Sunday, 17:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42185, longitude 0.77559, in the ME12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Halfway Houses. It is one of the crashes that make up the Queenborough and Halfway, Swale, ME12 3AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460332184
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 2017.
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Seat Ibiza crash on the A250 in Swale, 2 February 2017
At the same spotRef 2017460154748
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Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 8 May 2018
1 m awayRef 2018460295005
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A250 in Swale, 7 September 2018
2 m awayRef 2018460326862
Serious
Yamaha MT crash on the A250 in Swale, 27 March 2024
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Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 26 November 2019
3 m awayRef 2019460905517
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A250 in Swale, 4 July 1995
4 m awayRef 199546SW30651
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes E Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes E Class)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- 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 2018460332184 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.