Unclassified road crash in Maidstone ME17 on 10 June 2014 at 07:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Land Rover Freelander were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone at 07:30 on Tuesday 10 June 2014. The 32-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jun 2014
- Tuesday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23897, longitude 0.61464, in the ME17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Maidstone
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014460242792
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 June 2014.
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 3 June 2014
10 m awayRef 2014460243161
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 29 December 1990
22 m awayRef 199046AA28040
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 28 September 1993
208 m awayRef 1993461312211
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 31 December 1993
208 m awayRef 1993461313185
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 18 February 2002
358 m awayRef 200246MA54517
Slight
Freight Rover Sherpa crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 13 June 1995
367 m awayRef 199546MA18803
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2014460242792 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.