A229 crash in Maidstone on 21 July 2009 at 22:05 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the A229 in Maidstone at 22:05 on Tuesday 21 July 2009. The 17-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta, the 32-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 206 and a 15-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 2009
- Tuesday, 22:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1701, longitude 0.55251, in the TN12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Staplehurst. It is one of the crashes that make up the Staplehurst, Maidstone, TN12 0BX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460174733
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 2006.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 5 August 2006
At the same spotRef 2006460129394
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 10 September 2009
At the same spotRef 2009460177246
Slight
Fiat Ducato crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 1 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199846MA31419
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 7 September 2000
At the same spotRef 200046MA29253
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 1 August 2003
At the same spotRef 200346MA80199
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 14 October 2019
9 m awayRef 2019460890096
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- 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
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2009460174733 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 2009.