A229 crash in Maidstone on 25 January 2014 at 18:59 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a Jaguar XK Series were involved in a crash on the A229 in Maidstone at 18:59 on Saturday 25 January 2014. A 27-year-old male passenger in the Honda Civic was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 2014
- Saturday, 18:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and Jaguar XK Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26707, longitude 0.52692, in the ME15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maidstone. It is one of the crashes that make up the High Street, Maidstone, ME15 7UA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014460237686
- 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
- One way street
- 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 October 2014.
Slight
Dennis crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 22 October 2014
At the same spotRef 2014460248553
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 20 July 2024
7 m awayRef 2024461473249
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 26 August 1993
10 m awayRef 1993461311843
Slight
Fiat Doblo crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 2 October 2008
10 m awayRef 2008460162927
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 22 July 1996
10 m awayRef 199646MA22991
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 25 August 2012
14 m awayRef 2012460217541
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,493 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Jaguar XK Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2014460237686 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 2014.