M2 crash in Swale on 4 August 2025 at 15:07 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Citroen Berlingo van were involved in a crash on the M2 in Swale at 15:07 on Monday 4 August 2025. The 46-year-old female driver of the Ford Transit van and a 31-year-old female passenger in the Ford Transit van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Aug 2025
- Monday, 15:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Citroen Berlingo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29741, longitude 0.7755, in the ME9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Downs, Swale, ME9 0AY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461627363
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- 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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the M2 in Swale, 16 July 2006
14 m awayRef 2006460128877
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the M2 in Swale, 18 January 1999
19 m awayRef 199946CT09193
Serious
Car crash on the M2 in Swale, 1 September 1985
24 m awayRef 1985465208035
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the M2 in Swale, 15 July 1985
24 m awayRef 1985465206025
Slight
Car crash on the M2 in Swale, 27 March 1989
24 m awayRef 198946EF06199
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the M2 in Swale, 6 July 2004
27 m awayRef 200446SW96052
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Citroen Berlingo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 31, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2025461627363 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.