Unclassified road crash in Swale ME13 on 6 December 2018 at 15:15 involving a Renault Scenic
A bicycle and a Renault Scenic were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swale at 15:15 on Thursday 6 December 2018. The 14-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2018
- Thursday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Renault Scenic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31427, longitude 0.89124, in the ME13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Faversham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abbey, Swale, ME13 8JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460353440
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 1984.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 21 April 1984
17 m awayRef 1984466202744
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 6 March 1986
17 m awayRef 1986465201956
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A251 in Swale, 8 August 1994
38 m awayRef 1994460525881
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A251 in Swale, 21 March 1992
50 m awayRef 1992460512752
Serious
Vauxhall Corsavan crash on the A251 in Swale, 22 December 2008
54 m awayRef 2008460166436
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 15 July 2005
58 m awayRef 2005460113235
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Scenic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 14, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2018460353440 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.