A226 crash in Gravesham on 30 January 2023 at 16:44 involving a Honda WW125 motorcycle
A car and a Honda WW125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A226 in Gravesham at 16:44 on Monday 30 January 2023. The 20-year-old male rider of the Honda WW125 motorcycle 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
- 30 Jan 2023
- Monday, 16:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Honda WW125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43952, longitude 0.36882, in the DA12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gravesend. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pelham, Gravesham, DA12 1BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023461390488
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 3 May 2019.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 3 May 2019
1 m awayRef 2019460840962
Slight
Yamaha GPD 125 crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 7 December 2019
4 m awayRef 2019460909576
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Gravesham, 21 October 2003
5 m awayRef 200346NK85342
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Gravesham, 16 May 2014
5 m awayRef 2014460241822
Serious
Datsun crash on a C road in Gravesham, 7 May 1991
5 m awayRef 199146CA00171
Slight
Tractor crash on a C road in Gravesham, 13 August 2010
5 m awayRef 2010460189693
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 4,691 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda WW125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda WW125)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2023461390488 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 2023.