Unclassified road crash in Swale ME12 on 14 July 2019 at 20:45 involving a mobility scooter
A mobility scooter crashed on an unclassified road in Swale at 20:45 on Sunday 14 July 2019. The 24-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2019
- Sunday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mobility scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42217, longitude 0.81072, in the ME12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Minster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sheppey Central, Swale, ME12 3SL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019460867679
- Council area
- Swale
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2021.
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Skoda Favorit crash on the B2008 in Swale, 6 July 1993
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Serious
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on the B2008 in Swale, 15 April 2016
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Volvo 240 crash on the B2008 in Swale, 1 August 1997
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Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B2008 in Swale, 5 March 2019
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mobility scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 24, mobility scooter rider, on vehicle 1 (Mobility scooter)
- 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 2019460867679 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 2019.