B2163 crash in Maidstone on 30 July 1990 at 18:23 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 and a Ford Cortina were involved in a crash on the B2163 in Maidstone at 18:23 on Monday 30 July 1990. The 29-year-old male driver of the Ford Cortina and a 46-year-old female passenger in the Ford Cortina were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 1990
- Monday, 18:23
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 205 and Ford Cortina
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2363, longitude 0.48394, in the ME15 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199046AA16140
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2163
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 November 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 3 November 1984
At the same spotRef 1984461109084
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Maidstone, 23 June 1989
At the same spotRef 198946AA06199
Serious
Lorry crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 4 August 1980
At the same spotRef 1980461105970
Slight
Car crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 20 December 2025
67 m awayRef 2025461695358
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 19 January 2021
67 m awayRef 2021461017517
Slight
Alfa Romeo Giulietta crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 11 October 2023
69 m awayRef 2023461363669
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Cortina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Cortina)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Cortina)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 199046AA16140 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 1990.