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M20 crash in Maidstone on 5 December 1985 at 11:55 involving a lorry

A lorry crashed on the M20 in Maidstone at 11:55 on Thursday 5 December 1985. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 70 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
5 Dec 1985
Thursday, 11:55
Vehicles
1
Lorry
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29867, longitude 0.51169, in the ME14 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Maidstone

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1985461113445
Council area
Maidstone
Police force
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
Motorway
First road number
20
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
70 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
229

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 June 1982.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Lorry

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 20, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)

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 1985461113445 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.