A229 crash in Maidstone on 22 January 1991 at 13:10 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A229 in Maidstone at 13:10 on Tuesday 22 January 1991. The 20-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 1991
- Tuesday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26958, longitude 0.52602, in the ME15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maidstone.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199146AA30191
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 229
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 2024.
Slight
Seat Alhambra crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 17 January 2024
4 m awayRef 2024461399637
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Kia Rio crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 24 May 2017
4 m awayRef 2017460186195
Slight
Car crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 19 January 1980
10 m awayRef 1980461100500
Slight
Volvo 360 crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 16 July 2003
10 m awayRef 200346MA79853
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Lorry crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 24 March 1987
10 m awayRef 1987461103817
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Mitsubishi Galant crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 12 April 1990
10 m awayRef 199046AA04010
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199146AA30191 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 1991.