A226 crash in Gravesham on 8 December 2018 at 13:30 involving an Audi TT
An Audi TT and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A226 in Gravesham at 13:30 on Saturday 8 December 2018. A 37-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle was 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
- 8 Dec 2018
- Saturday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi TT and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4496, longitude 0.32113, in the DA11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northfleet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Swanscombe, Dartford, DA10 0AN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460353074
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 226
- 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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 May 2019.
Serious
Ford B-Max crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 16 May 2019
3 m awayRef 2019460846698
Serious
Honda CBR crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 7 September 2021
5 m awayRef 2021461090432
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 25 July 2000
6 m awayRef 200046NK27981
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 30 July 2012
6 m awayRef 2012460216663
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 3 May 2007
6 m awayRef 2007460142153
Slight
Car crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 18 December 2006
6 m awayRef 2006460135594
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi TT
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 745 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 37, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2018460353074 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.