Unclassified road crash in Maidstone ME17 on 6 October 1987 at 21:35 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone at 21:35 on Tuesday 6 October 1987. The 17-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 and an 18-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 1987
- Tuesday, 21:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24318, longitude 0.66199, in the ME17 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987461111787
- 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
- T or staggered 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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 10 September 1989.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 10 September 1989
At the same spotRef 198946AA09499
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 17 April 1981
At the same spotRef 1981461102161
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 13 August 1986
At the same spotRef 1986461108786
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 13 November 1989
At the same spotRef 198946AA12519
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 24 May 1997
14 m awayRef 199746MA26086
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 16 November 2001
41 m awayRef 200146MA49335
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1987461111787 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 1987.