B2229 crash in Ashford on 15 February 2016 at 08:40 involving a Nissan Almera
A Nissan Almera and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on the B2229 in Ashford at 08:40 on Monday 15 February 2016. The 79-year-old male driver of the Nissan Almera and the 46-year-old male driver of the Nissan Qashqai were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2016
- Monday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Almera and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13649, longitude 0.86003, in the TN23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stanhope, Ashford, TN23 5FJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460045540
- Council area
- Ashford
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2229
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 2016.
Slight
Transbus Int crash on the B2229 in Ashford, 26 April 2016
1 m awayRef 2016460063270
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B2229 in Ashford, 6 April 2011
5 m awayRef 2011460198767
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B2229 in Ashford, 27 April 2000
5 m awayRef 200046WL16976
Slight
Lancia Delta crash on the B2229 in Ashford, 1 May 2001
5 m awayRef 200146WL39932
Slight
Taxi crash on the B2229 in Ashford, 21 November 1998
5 m awayRef 199846WL07899
Slight
Skoda 120 crash on the B2229 in Ashford, 23 March 1997
5 m awayRef 199746WL30899
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 79, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Almera)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2016460045540 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 2016.