A2 crash in Gravesham on 14 February 2025 at 17:47 involving a Vauxhall Meriva
Four vehicles, including a Vauxhall Meriva and a Volvo V60, were involved in a crash on the A2 in Gravesham at 17:47 on Friday 14 February 2025. The 29-year-old female driver of the Volvo V60 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 2025
- Friday, 17:47
- Vehicles
- 4
- Vauxhall Meriva and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.423, longitude 0.33825, in the DA11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Painters Ash, Gravesham, DA11 8EN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461554683
- 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
- 2
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Fine, 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 2014.
Slight
Honda crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 10 December 2014
19 m awayRef 2014460250703
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 30 July 2012
20 m awayRef 2012460216529
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 15 August 2020
23 m awayRef 2020460974680
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 26 March 2016
25 m awayRef 2016460058550
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 15 December 2012
30 m awayRef 2012460222153
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 18 October 2016
34 m awayRef 2016460120207
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Volvo V60
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 3: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 4: Honda HR-V
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo V60)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025461554683 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 2025.