Unclassified road crash in Maidstone TN27 on 29 July 1985 at 17:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone at 17:10 on Monday 29 July 1985. The 48-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jul 1985
- Monday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17777, longitude 0.611, in the TN27 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985461107655
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 139 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 6 October 2016
139 m awayRef 2016460158862
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 13 June 1998
141 m awayRef 199846MA30168
Slight
Car crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 14 August 1983
141 m awayRef 1983461106513
Serious
Morris Mini crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 12 July 1990
141 m awayRef 199046AA13740
Fatal
Bicycle crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 9 June 1980
141 m awayRef 1980461104250
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 19 February 2010
141 m awayRef 2010460183776
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 1985461107655 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Maidstone road accident statistics for 1985.