A229 crash in Maidstone on 15 October 2010 at 07:46 involving a Peugeot 406
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2010
- Friday, 07:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 406 and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13858, longitude 0.55449, in the TN17 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010460192415
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 1990.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 3 August 1990
10 m awayRef 199046AC15800
Serious
Car crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 7 July 2023
24 m awayRef 2023461334193
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 21 April 1997
32 m awayRef 199746MA25802
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 1 May 2009
50 m awayRef 2009460171614
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 29 November 2002
54 m awayRef 200246MA68094
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 29 April 1994
64 m awayRef 1994461314471
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2010460192415 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.