A28 crash in Ashford on 24 September 2014 at 07:40 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper and a Mazda 323 were involved in a crash on the A28 in Ashford at 07:40 on Wednesday 24 September 2014. The 60-year-old female driver of the Mini Cooper was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 2014
- Wednesday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini Cooper and Mazda 323
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01997, longitude 0.60629, in the TN18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014460247377
- Council area
- Ashford
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 28
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 268
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2023.
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the A28 in Ashford, 7 July 2023
7 m awayRef 2023461327102
Slight
Land Rover 110 crash on the A28 in Ashford, 23 June 2009
10 m awayRef 2009460173848
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A268 in Ashford, 30 January 2005
10 m awayRef 2005460105975
Slight
Car crash on the A268 in Ashford, 22 November 2005
10 m awayRef 2005460118726
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A28 in Ashford, 3 March 1992
10 m awayRef 1992461005678
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the A28 in Ashford, 6 October 2006
10 m awayRef 2006460132139
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,489 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
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 2014460247377 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ashford road accident statistics for 2014.