Unclassified road crash in Gravesham ME2 on 6 December 2018 at 17:50 involving a Citroen C5
A Citroen C5 and a Ford B-Max were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham at 17:50 on Thursday 6 December 2018. The 32-year-old female driver of the Ford B-Max and a 10-year-old female passenger in the Ford B-Max were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2018
- Thursday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C5 and Ford B-Max
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39878, longitude 0.46082, in the ME2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Strood West, Medway, ME2 2TT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460352644
- Council area
- Gravesham
- 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
- 40 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 24 May 2014
2 m awayRef 2014460242298
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 23 November 1998
8 m awayRef 199846ME16539
Slight
Triumph T595 Daytona crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 3 February 2005
8 m awayRef 2005460106028
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 15 May 1998
8 m awayRef 199846ME14019
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 9 June 1992
8 m awayRef 1992460313773
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 5 February 1998
8 m awayRef 199846ME12802
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford B-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford B-Max)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford B-Max)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2018460352644 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gravesham road accident statistics for 2018.