Serious B2162 crash in Maidstone on 29 March 2017 at 11:25 involving a Peugeot Partner
A Peugeot Partner and a Peugeot 3008 were involved in a crash on the B2162 in Maidstone at 11:25 on Wednesday 29 March 2017. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two 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
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Mar 2017
- Wednesday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Partner and Peugeot 3008
- Casualties
- 4
- 2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22116, longitude 0.42214, in the ME18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marden & Yalding, Maidstone, ME18 6DF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017460168435
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2162
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 2018.
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 24 October 2018
5 m awayRef 2018460339859
Slight
Jeep Patriot crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 21 June 2016
7 m awayRef 2016460083894
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 12 May 2000
10 m awayRef 200046MA23109
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 13 February 2009
10 m awayRef 2009460169126
Fatal
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 17 November 2003
10 m awayRef 200346MA85433
Slight
Car crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 11 August 2013
12 m awayRef 2013460230757
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Partner
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 3008
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- 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
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Partner)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 94, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Partner)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Partner)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Partner)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2017460168435 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.