B2015 crash in Maidstone on 2 September 2016 at 21:11 involving an Audi Q7
An Audi Q7 and a Fiat Panda were involved in a crash on the B2015 in Maidstone at 21:11 on Friday 2 September 2016. The 52-year-old male driver of the Fiat Panda was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Sep 2016
- Friday, 21:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi Q7 and Fiat Panda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2469, longitude 0.41476, in the ME18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the East and West Peckham, Mereworth & Wateringbury, Tonbridge and Malling, ME18 5DH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460148952
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2015
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 January 1991.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2015 in Maidstone, 12 January 1991
4 m awayRef 199146AB29661
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the B2015 in Maidstone, 17 January 2002
4 m awayRef 200246MA53308
Slight
Honda FR-V crash on the B2015 in Maidstone, 27 September 2006
4 m awayRef 2006460131782
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B2015 in Maidstone, 5 October 2006
4 m awayRef 2006460131977
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B2015 in Maidstone, 17 November 1995
4 m awayRef 199546MA20321
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B2015 in Maidstone, 11 August 2007
12 m awayRef 2007460145428
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi Q7
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Panda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Panda)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2016460148952 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.