A226 crash in Gravesham on 16 November 2020 at 17:00 involving a Ford C-Max
A Ford C-Max and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A226 in Gravesham at 17:00 on Monday 16 November 2020. The 27-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Nov 2020
- Monday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford C-Max and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44959, longitude 0.32123, 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
- 2020461001977
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 September 2021.
Serious
Honda CBR crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 7 September 2021
4 m awayRef 2021461090432
Slight
Audi TT crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 8 December 2018
7 m awayRef 2018460353074
Serious
Ford B-Max crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 16 May 2019
10 m awayRef 2019460846698
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 30 July 2012
11 m awayRef 2012460216663
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 25 July 2000
11 m awayRef 200046NK27981
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 3 May 2007
11 m awayRef 2007460142153
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford C-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2020461001977 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 2020.