A20 crash in Maidstone on 13 November 1998 at 12:15 involving a car
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Nov 1998
- Friday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27311, longitude 0.51216, in the ME16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maidstone.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199846MA32044
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 20
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 2002.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 14 November 2002
At the same spotRef 200246MA67247
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 30 August 1995
10 m awayRef 199546MA19476
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 15 October 2020
22 m awayRef 2020460990391
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 8 January 1997
22 m awayRef 199746MA24761
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 15 November 1997
28 m awayRef 199746MA28206
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 24 January 2014
36 m awayRef 2014460237664
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver age
- 77 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 199846MA32044 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 1998.