A250 crash in Swale on 2 April 2025 at 23:10 involving a BMW 2 Series
A BMW 2 Series and a Ford S-Max were involved in a crash on the A250 in Swale at 23:10 on Wednesday 2 April 2025. The 38-year-old male driver of the BMW 2 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 2025
- Wednesday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 2 Series and Ford S-Max
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42223, longitude 0.77689, in the ME12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Halfway Houses. It is one of the crashes that make up the Queenborough and Halfway, Swale, ME12 3AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461575722
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 250
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2008
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
- 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 11 December 2023.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A250 in Swale, 11 December 2023
1 m awayRef 2023461386910
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the A250 in Swale, 14 October 2007
7 m awayRef 2007460148581
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A250 in Swale, 18 August 1997
7 m awayRef 199746SW10021
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A250 in Swale, 3 May 2010
7 m awayRef 2010460186233
Serious
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A250 in Swale, 28 October 2013
16 m awayRef 2013460233724
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A250 in Swale, 9 February 2011
16 m awayRef 2011460202017
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 2 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ford S-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 2 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025461575722 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 2025.