B2010 crash in Maidstone on 12 July 1997 at 13:35 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the B2010 in Maidstone at 13:35 on Saturday 12 July 1997. The 61-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jul 1997
- Saturday, 13:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25421, longitude 0.46212, in the ME15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Maidstone
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199746MA26698
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2010
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Involvement with previous collision
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 August 2022.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B2010 in Maidstone, 22 August 2022
5 m awayRef 2022461286115
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B2010 in Maidstone, 20 January 1999
32 m awayRef 199946MA00847
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 1 April 1990
41 m awayRef 199046AA03310
Slight
Car crash on the B2010 in Maidstone, 20 December 1998
51 m awayRef 199846MA00694
Serious
Car crash on the B2010 in Maidstone, 20 August 1987
61 m awayRef 1987461109197
Slight
Car crash on the B2010 in Maidstone, 17 July 1989
117 m awayRef 198946AA07859
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 199746MA26698 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 1997.