Unclassified road crash in Swale ME13 on 18 August 2025 at 14:30 involving a Ford Kuga
A Ford Kuga hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swale at 14:30 on Monday 18 August 2025. A female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2025
- Monday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Kuga
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30527, longitude 0.90192, in the ME13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Faversham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Watling, Swale, ME13 8JF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461636162
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Kent
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
- Other junction
- 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
- 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, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 January 2009.
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 12 January 2009
30 m awayRef 2009460167246
Serious
Car crash on the A2 in Swale, 27 April 1981
68 m awayRef 1981466203181
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Swale, 19 February 1985
68 m awayRef 1985465201165
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A2 in Swale, 16 October 1985
68 m awayRef 1985465209575
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Swale, 28 August 1989
68 m awayRef 198946EF16309
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Swale, 6 September 1986
68 m awayRef 1986465208016
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Kuga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Kuga)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 2025461636162 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.