Unclassified road crash in Medway ME8 on 29 June 2024 at 11:00 involving a Ford Focus
A bicycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Medway at 11:00 on Saturday 29 June 2024. The 22-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jun 2024
- Saturday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36943, longitude 0.57847, in the ME8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gillingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Twydall, Medway, ME8 6EF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024461461626
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 May 2025.
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 16 May 2025
13 m awayRef 2025461591078
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the A2 in Medway, 22 November 2012
20 m awayRef 2012460221284
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 4 October 2012
20 m awayRef 2012460219225
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A2 in Medway, 2 March 2013
20 m awayRef 2013460224738
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 31 January 2008
20 m awayRef 2008460052886
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A2 in Medway, 8 September 2011
20 m awayRef 2011460204499
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 22, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024461461626 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 2024.