C road crash in Maidstone ME15 on 18 December 2011 at 16:23 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris crashed on a C road in Maidstone at 16:23 on Sunday 18 December 2011. The 82-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2011
- Sunday, 16:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26206, longitude 0.55875, in the ME15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maidstone. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bearsted & Downswood, Maidstone, ME15 8LA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011460208393
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 2000.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Maidstone, 28 February 2000
At the same spotRef 200046MA14724
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 29 September 2006
At the same spotRef 2006460131757
Slight
Austin Mini crash on a C road in Maidstone, 26 March 1991
At the same spotRef 199146AA35721
Serious
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 15 September 2006
At the same spotRef 2006460131200
Slight
Volvo S80 crash on a C road in Maidstone, 22 October 2010
10 m awayRef 2010460192548
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on a C road in Maidstone, 1 September 2011
10 m awayRef 2011460204611
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,363 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
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 2011460208393 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.