A2 crash in Medway on 24 December 2018 at 14:40 involving a Nissan Qashqai
A Nissan Qashqai and a Toyota Auris were involved in a crash on the A2 in Medway at 14:40 on Monday 24 December 2018. The 37-year-old male driver of the Toyota Auris 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
- 24 Dec 2018
- Monday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Qashqai and Toyota Auris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3822, longitude 0.51631, in the ME1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chatham Central & Brompton, Medway, ME4 4AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460355481
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 1990.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A2 in Medway, 9 December 1990
1 m awayRef 199046BC28630
Slight
Lorry crash on the A2 in Medway, 3 July 1989
1 m awayRef 198946BA07159
Serious
Car crash on the A2 in Medway, 15 July 1981
1 m awayRef 1981462105281
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Medway, 21 June 1979
1 m awayRef 1979462103909
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A2 in Medway, 15 November 1990
1 m awayRef 199046BA26780
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Medway, 18 December 1982
1 m awayRef 1982462109852
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Qashqai
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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Auris
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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Auris)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018460355481 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Medway road accident statistics for 2018.