Unclassified road crash in Medway ME1 on 31 October 2025 at 17:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Dacia Sandero were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Medway at 17:00 on Friday 31 October 2025. The 48-year-old female driver of the Dacia Sandero was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2025
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Dacia Sandero
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36453, longitude 0.49741, in the ME1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rochester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rochester East & Warren Wood, Medway, ME1 2UL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461661950
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 46 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 November 2007.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B2097 in Medway, 3 November 2007
46 m awayRef 2007460048773
Serious
Car crash on the B2097 in Medway, 3 February 1981
46 m awayRef 1981462100801
Slight
Car crash on the B2097 in Medway, 15 September 1983
46 m awayRef 1983462106863
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B2097 in Medway, 13 December 1990
46 m awayRef 199046BA28980
Slight
Car crash on the B2097 in Medway, 4 December 1981
46 m awayRef 1981462108951
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the B2097 in Medway, 8 March 2011
55 m awayRef 2011460197762
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- 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
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Dacia Sandero
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Dacia Sandero)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025461661950 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Medway road accident statistics for 2025.