Unclassified road crash in Maidstone ME17 on 14 February 2017 at 17:42 involving a Nissan Almera
A Nissan Almera and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone at 17:42 on Tuesday 14 February 2017. The 24-year-old male driver of the Nissan Almera was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 2017
- Tuesday, 17:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Almera and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22911, longitude 0.54228, in the ME17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Loose. It is one of the crashes that make up the Boughton Monchelsea & Chart Sutton, Maidstone, ME17 4JE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Maidstone
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017460157133
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 1 February 1999
2 m awayRef 199946MA00873
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 24 October 1995
2 m awayRef 199546MA20218
Slight
Bedford crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 28 July 1995
2 m awayRef 199546MA19205
Slight
Car crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 26 May 1999
2 m awayRef 199946MA02281
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 24 December 2002
2 m awayRef 200246MA69517
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 15 June 2003
2 m awayRef 200346MA77906
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Almera)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017460157133 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 2017.