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Serious A278 crash in Maidstone on 21 October 2007 at 02:50 involving a Hyundai Accent

A Hyundai Accent crashed on the A278 in Maidstone at 02:50 on Sunday 21 October 2007. The 48-year-old female driver was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
21 Oct 2007
Sunday, 02:50
Vehicles
1
Hyundai Accent
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33533, longitude 0.58049, in the ME7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hempstead & Wigmore, Medway, ME8 0LY area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Maidstone

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2007460148470
Council area
Maidstone
Police force
Kent
Police attended the scene
No
Highway authority
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
278
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 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
Dark, street lights lit
Road surface
Dry

Enhanced collision data

How severity was recorded
Judged by the reporting police officer
Estimated chance it was serious
100%
Estimated chance it was slight
0%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2009.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Hyundai Accent

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Position at junction
    Not at or within 20 metres of junction
    Hit object in carriageway
    Bollard or refuge
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Journey purpose
    Other or not known
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    48 years
    Engine capacity
    1,341 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    5 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai Accent)

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 2007460148470 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 2007.