B2162 crash in Maidstone on 24 December 2011 at 16:05 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a Citroen AX were involved in a crash on the B2162 in Maidstone at 16:05 on Saturday 24 December 2011. The 80-year-old male driver of the Citroen AX was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2011
- Saturday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and Citroen AX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18802, longitude 0.4549, in the TN12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Maidstone
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011460209046
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2162
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 1998.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 22 November 1998
At the same spotRef 199846MA00118
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 18 April 1996
10 m awayRef 199646MA21964
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 1 August 2024
59 m awayRef 2024461477586
Serious
Car crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 18 June 1981
86 m awayRef 1981461104271
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 24 August 2025
97 m awayRef 2025461635433
Slight
Car crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 9 August 1979
139 m awayRef 1979461106219
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen AX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 954 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen AX)
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 2011460209046 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.