A229 crash in Maidstone on 10 March 2011 at 12:45 involving a Smart Fortwo
A Smart Fortwo, two Ford Fiestas and a Mitsubishi Outlander were involved in a crash on the A229 in Maidstone at 12:45 on Thursday 10 March 2011. The 18-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 and the 20-year-old male driver of vehicle 3 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2011
- Thursday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 4
- Smart Fortwo and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15814, longitude 0.55243, in the TN12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Staplehurst.
Map of where the crash happened in Maidstone
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011460198015
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 2022.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 6 April 2022
9 m awayRef 2022461168950
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 2 April 1998
20 m awayRef 199846MA29520
Slight
Car crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 15 September 1979
28 m awayRef 1979461107499
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 3 September 1980
28 m awayRef 1980461106820
Serious
Car crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 29 June 1981
28 m awayRef 1981461104501
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 27 October 1980
28 m awayRef 1980461108500
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Smart Fortwo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 4: Mitsubishi Outlander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (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 2011460198015 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 2011.