A229 crash in Maidstone on 9 October 2008 at 11:40 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 2008
- Thursday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26482, longitude 0.52723, in the ME15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maidstone. It is one of the crashes that make up the High Street, Maidstone, ME15 7UA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460163434
- 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
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 2016.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 27 December 2016
8 m awayRef 2016460144450
Serious
Toyota Aygo crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 22 April 2023
9 m awayRef 2023461301985
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 9 March 2010
10 m awayRef 2010460184002
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 31 July 2005
10 m awayRef 2005460113687
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 27 April 1991
10 m awayRef 199146AA37711
Slight
Dennis crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 1 March 2010
10 m awayRef 2010460183746
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 650 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 48, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2008460163434 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 2008.