M2 crash in Maidstone on 29 August 2016 at 12:00 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Aug 2016
- Monday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33489, longitude 0.64927, in the ME9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460102811
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 2019.
Slight
Mini One crash on the M2 in Swale, 3 October 2019
18 m awayRef 2019460887505
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M2 in Swale, 22 August 2011
42 m awayRef 2011460203848
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M2 in Swale, 10 November 2005
49 m awayRef 2005460118181
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the M2 in Swale, 11 December 2012
50 m awayRef 2012460222273
Serious
Fiat Doblo crash on the M2 in Swale, 10 March 2015
63 m awayRef 2015460254164
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the M2 in Swale, 15 March 2001
73 m awayRef 200146SW38220
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 805 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2016460102811 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.