A229 crash in Maidstone on 25 June 2010 at 20:50 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A229 in Maidstone at 20:50 on Friday 25 June 2010. The 28-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series and the 53-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jun 2010
- Friday, 20:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29668, longitude 0.51363, in the ME14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Boxley Downs, Maidstone, ME14 3AT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010460188182
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 2006.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 27 April 2006
At the same spotRef 2006460125549
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 2 December 2008
At the same spotRef 2008460165777
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 22 October 2002
At the same spotRef 200246MA65717
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 11 January 2012
At the same spotRef 2012460209221
Slight
MAN crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 2 September 2000
At the same spotRef 200046MA28873
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 7 April 2018
5 m awayRef 2018460285247
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,895 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
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 2010460188182 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 2010.