A274 crash in Maidstone on 24 November 2013 at 16:00 involving a Citroen C3
A car and a Citroen C3 were involved in a crash on the A274 in Maidstone at 16:00 on Sunday 24 November 2013. The 37-year-old female driver of the Citroen C3 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 2013
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24767, longitude 0.54649, in the ME15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maidstone. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shepway, Maidstone, ME15 7PX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013460234983
- 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
- 274
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 2020.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 16 March 2020
4 m awayRef 2020460943613
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 7 January 2013
10 m awayRef 2013460223115
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 25 October 2014
10 m awayRef 2014460249164
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 16 October 1997
10 m awayRef 199746MA27689
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 3 October 2012
10 m awayRef 2012460219089
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 18 December 2007
10 m awayRef 2007460151402
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C3)
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 2013460234983 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.