A229 crash in Maidstone on 29 April 2014 at 17:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a car were involved in a crash on the A229 in Maidstone at 17:15 on Tuesday 29 April 2014. The 34-year-old female driver of the car and a 3-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Apr 2014
- Tuesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27698, longitude 0.518, in the ME14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maidstone. It is one of the crashes that make up the High Street, Maidstone, ME14 1TF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Maidstone
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014460241097
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 229
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 April 2011.
Serious
Car crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 4 April 2011
10 m awayRef 2011460198737
Slight
Mobility scooter crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 6 April 2016
22 m awayRef 2016460057923
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 17 June 1997
28 m awayRef 199746MA26362
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 21 December 2001
28 m awayRef 200146MA53409
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 22 November 2010
32 m awayRef 2010460194367
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 4 May 2010
51 m awayRef 2010460185863
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 2014460241097 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.