A2 crash in Swale on 28 May 2025 at 17:53 involving a Honda CBR motorcycle
A Honda CBR motorcycle and a Hyundai i10 were involved in a crash on the A2 in Swale at 17:53 on Wednesday 28 May 2025. The 19-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 2025
- Wednesday, 17:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CBR and Hyundai i10
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35575, longitude 0.64738, in the ME9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newington.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461595749
- 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
- 2
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 2016.
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 31 December 2016
5 m awayRef 2016460146611
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Swale, 8 January 2024
39 m awayRef 2024461395770
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A2 in Swale, 9 October 1997
39 m awayRef 199746SW10925
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A2 in Swale, 8 November 1994
46 m awayRef 1994460527141
Fatal
Rover 200 Series crash on the A2 in Swale, 3 March 1993
55 m awayRef 1993460517913
Slight
Peugeot Vivacity crash on the A2 in Swale, 29 June 2005
64 m awayRef 2005460112176
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 649 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Hyundai i10
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2025461595749 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.