M20 crash in Maidstone on 26 November 2016 at 21:50 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 and a Volkswagen Touareg were involved in a crash on the M20 in Maidstone at 21:50 on Saturday 26 November 2016. The 25-year-old female driver of the Fiat 500 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Nov 2016
- Saturday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat 500 and Volkswagen Touareg
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23959, longitude 0.67076, in the ME17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harrietsham, Lenham & North Downs, Maidstone, ME17 1AB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460132612
- 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
- 20
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the M20 in Maidstone, 4 June 2015
4 m awayRef 2015460257960
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the M20 in Maidstone, 1 June 1999
6 m awayRef 199946MA02656
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the M20 in Maidstone, 14 December 2008
21 m awayRef 2008460166064
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the M20 in Maidstone, 17 December 2025
22 m awayRef 2025461684083
Slight
Car crash on the M20 in Maidstone, 16 August 1991
38 m awayRef 1991461146581
Slight
Chevrolet Aveo crash on the M20 in Maidstone, 8 May 2014
109 m awayRef 2014460241413
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Touareg
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 3,189 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- 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 2016460132612 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.