Serious A20 crash in Maidstone on 20 June 2000 at 04:10 involving a Ford Mondeo
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Jun 2000
- Tuesday, 04:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24349, longitude 0.66147, in the ME17 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200046MA25515
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 20
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 October 1999.
Serious
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 29 October 1999
10 m awayRef 199946MA08412
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 6 October 1987
57 m awayRef 1987461111787
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 13 August 1986
57 m awayRef 1986461108786
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 13 November 1989
57 m awayRef 198946AA12519
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 17 April 1981
57 m awayRef 1981461102161
Slight
Lorry crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 10 September 1989
57 m awayRef 198946AA09499
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 200046MA25515 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 2000.