C road crash in Maidstone ME17 on 16 April 2014 at 10:58 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 and a Citroen C4 were involved in a crash on a C road in Maidstone at 10:58 on Wednesday 16 April 2014. The 47-year-old female driver of the Citroen C4 and an 82-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 207 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2014
- Wednesday, 10:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 207 and Citroen C4
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23697, longitude 0.71826, in the ME17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lenham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harrietsham, Lenham & North Downs, Maidstone, ME17 2QN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Maidstone
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014460240649
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 2017.
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 26 October 2017
10 m awayRef 2017460235463
Serious
Volvo 440 crash on a C road in Maidstone, 22 December 2000
20 m awayRef 200046MA35230
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Maidstone, 3 September 1997
20 m awayRef 199746MA27421
Serious
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 18 March 2005
20 m awayRef 2005460108049
Slight
Vauxhall Signum crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 19 September 2018
23 m awayRef 2018460332691
Slight
Iveco crash on a C road in Maidstone, 10 July 2001
30 m awayRef 200146MA43761
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- 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
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C4)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 207)
- 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 2014460240649 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.