Unclassified road crash in Maidstone ME17 on 1 August 2013 at 20:00 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper, a Jaguar XJ Series and a Land Rover Range Rover were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone at 20:00 on Thursday 1 August 2013. A 45-year-old female pedestrian hit by the Mini Cooper and an 18-year-old female pedestrian hit by the Mini Cooper were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 2013
- Thursday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mini Cooper and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.213, longitude 0.59369, in the ME17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sutton Valence. It is one of the crashes that make up the Headcorn & Sutton Valence, Maidstone, ME17 3HS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013460230467
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Jaguar XJ Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 3,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 3: Land Rover Range Rover
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 4,367 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 2013460230467 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 2013.