A274 crash in Maidstone on 25 October 2014 at 18:46 involving a Ford Transit van
A car and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A274 in Maidstone at 18:46 on Saturday 25 October 2014. A 15-year-old male passenger in the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 2014
- Saturday, 18:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24767, longitude 0.54663, in the ME15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maidstone. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shepway, Maidstone, ME15 7PX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014460249164
- 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
- 274
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 16 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199746MA27689
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 7 July 2024
3 m awayRef 2024461465025
Serious
Yamaha MT07 crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 18 April 2018
5 m awayRef 2018460286912
Slight
Ford C-Max crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 27 October 2019
8 m awayRef 2019460904069
Slight
Kia Sedona crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 19 January 2019
10 m awayRef 2019460813251
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 24 November 2013
10 m awayRef 2013460234983
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 2014460249164 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.