Serious unclassified road crash in Swale ME13 on 21 November 2021 at 15:03 involving a Vauxhall Insignia
A motorcycle and a Vauxhall Insignia were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swale at 15:03 on Sunday 21 November 2021. The 33-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Nov 2021
- Sunday, 15:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Vauxhall Insignia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32245, longitude 0.86967, in the ME13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Ann's, Swale, ME13 7PZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021461114487
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 April 2023.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 12 April 2023
17 m awayRef 2023461299037
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 8 August 1981
62 m awayRef 1981466206561
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 5 September 2025
145 m awayRef 2025461637668
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 24 January 1983
158 m awayRef 1983466200503
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 16 October 1998
182 m awayRef 199846SW07378
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B2045 in Swale, 30 March 2005
207 m awayRef 2005460108227
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 33 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 33, motorcyclist (engine size unknown), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2021461114487 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 2021.