A20 crash in Maidstone on 22 June 2016 at 15:50 involving a Nissan Qashqai
A car and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on the A20 in Maidstone at 15:50 on Wednesday 22 June 2016. The 46-year-old male driver of the car and the 47-year-old female driver of the Nissan Qashqai were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jun 2016
- Wednesday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26288, longitude 0.60807, in the ME17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bearsted.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460082182
- 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
- 20
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Dislodged vehicle load in carriageway
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2006.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 21 April 2006
7 m awayRef 2006460124925
Slight
MCC Smart crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 21 August 2004
12 m awayRef 200446MA98355
Serious
Suzuki GSXR crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 2 June 2022
22 m awayRef 2022461226433
Fatal
Peugeot 206 crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 26 April 2008
46 m awayRef 2008460156458
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 5 November 2002
53 m awayRef 200246MA66618
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 30 October 1984
57 m awayRef 1984461108764
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016460082182 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 2016.