A249 crash in Swale on 8 December 2025 at 16:32 involving a Peugeot Partner van
A Peugeot Partner van, a Toyota Aygo and a Skoda Yeti were involved in a crash on the A249 in Swale at 16:32 on Monday 8 December 2025. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Monday, 16:32
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot Partner and 2 others
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38353, longitude 0.74353, in the ME9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bobbing, Iwade and Lower Halstow, Swale, ME9 8SS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461680024
- 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
- 249
- 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
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 249
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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 2013.
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A249 in Swale, 9 December 2013
16 m awayRef 2013460235454
Fatal
Jaguar Sovereign crash on the A249 in Swale, 5 June 2002
16 m awayRef 200246SW58473
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A249 in Swale, 12 January 2002
25 m awayRef 200246SW52442
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on the A249 in Swale, 20 April 2004
57 m awayRef 200446SW92572
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A249 in Swale, 24 September 2024
84 m awayRef 2024461495545
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A249 in Swale, 15 January 1997
88 m awayRef 199746SW06496
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Partner
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 3: Skoda Yeti
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Partner)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Aygo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Aygo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Skoda Yeti)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2025461680024 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.