A229 crash in Maidstone on 6 September 2005 at 18:20 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A229 in Maidstone at 18:20 on Tuesday 6 September 2005. The 44-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 and the 50-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 were 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
- 6 Sep 2005
- Tuesday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15625, longitude 0.55232, in the TN12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Staplehurst.
Map of where the crash happened in Maidstone
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005460115066
- 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
- 229
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 2007.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 12 June 2007
At the same spotRef 2007460142657
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 27 December 2006
At the same spotRef 2006460135543
Slight
Honda NS125R crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 27 December 1991
10 m awayRef 199146AC57751
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 14 August 1996
10 m awayRef 199646MA23184
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 15 January 1986
36 m awayRef 1986461100526
Serious
Car crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 12 December 1983
36 m awayRef 1983461110713
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2005460115066 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 2005.