B2163 crash in Maidstone on 24 December 1991 at 12:30 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Peugeot 405 were involved in a crash on the B2163 in Maidstone at 12:30 on Tuesday 24 December 1991. The 25-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 405 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1991
- Tuesday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23053, longitude 0.5925, in the ME17 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199146AA57371
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 February 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 23 February 1979
20 m awayRef 1979461101249
Fatal
Lexus GS300 crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 18 June 2002
22 m awayRef 200246MA65114
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 31 January 2025
153 m awayRef 2025461548852
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 13 January 1980
156 m awayRef 1980461100280
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 5 September 2018
160 m awayRef 2018460328440
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 2 April 2006
230 m awayRef 2006460124112
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 405)
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 199146AA57371 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.