Unclassified road crash in Medway ME2 on 13 May 2021 at 12:21 involving a Mazda 6
A Mazda 6 and a Vauxhall Vivaro van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Medway at 12:21 on Thursday 13 May 2021. The 42-year-old male driver of the Mazda 6 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 May 2021
- Thursday, 12:21
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 6 and Vauxhall Vivaro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39625, longitude 0.48958, in the ME2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rochester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Strood North & Frindsbury, Medway, ME2 2AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021461050451
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 2
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 February 2013.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A2 in Medway, 9 February 2013
3 m awayRef 2013460223974
Slight
Lorry crash on the A2 in Medway, 12 August 1998
3 m awayRef 199846ME14990
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A2 in Medway, 28 June 2000
3 m awayRef 200046ME00320
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A2 in Medway, 28 June 2001
3 m awayRef 2001464646024
Slight
Proton Proton crash on the A2 in Medway, 27 May 2004
3 m awayRef 2004460096459
Slight
Aprilia RS50 crash on the A2 in Medway, 2 September 2007
3 m awayRef 2007460046088
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vivaro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 6)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2021461050451 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 2021.