A249 crash in Maidstone on 16 April 2014 at 17:31 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A249 in Maidstone at 17:31 on Wednesday 16 April 2014. A 17-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta and a 23-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2014
- Wednesday, 17:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32771, longitude 0.66017, in the ME9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Boxley Downs, Maidstone, ME9 7QD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014460240643
- 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
- 249
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 2008.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A249 in Maidstone, 29 December 2008
At the same spotRef 2008460166819
Slight
ERF crash on the A249 in Maidstone, 9 April 2014
At the same spotRef 2014460240414
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A249 in Maidstone, 5 October 2015
At the same spotRef 2015460262270
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A249 in Maidstone, 12 December 2011
10 m awayRef 2011460208254
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A249 in Maidstone, 5 September 2011
10 m awayRef 2011460204281
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A249 in Maidstone, 23 January 2008
10 m awayRef 2008460152374
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2014460240643 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.