Unclassified road crash in Maidstone ME17 on 2 April 2001 at 08:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Maidstone at 08:00 on Monday 2 April 2001. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 2001
- Monday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23013, longitude 0.51315, in the ME17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coxheath & Farleigh, Maidstone, ME17 4EF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Maidstone
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200146MA39487
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 2020.
Slight
Wrightbus Streetlite crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 25 January 2020
4 m awayRef 2020460924634
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 26 September 2004
10 m awayRef 200446MA00081
Slight
Scania crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 4 August 2009
10 m awayRef 2009460175320
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 2 March 2022
12 m awayRef 2022461153965
Slight
Honda FR-V crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 24 April 2008
14 m awayRef 2008460156368
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 8 December 2014
14 m awayRef 2014460250649
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200146MA39487 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 2001.