Unclassified road crash in Maidstone ME17 on 1 March 2018 at 18:20
A vehicle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Maidstone at 18:20 on Thursday 1 March 2018. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 2018
- Thursday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23707, longitude 0.59185, in the ME17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leeds & Langley, Maidstone, ME17 3JW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460276467
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Snow
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 2011.
Slight
Isuzu Trooper crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 3 September 2011
9 m awayRef 2011460204576
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 29 May 1979
53 m awayRef 1979461103999
Serious
Yamaha XJ 900 S crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 29 December 2013
73 m awayRef 2013460236182
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 16 January 2019
76 m awayRef 2019460355937
Serious
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 10 April 1996
79 m awayRef 199646MA21921
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 16 July 1992
79 m awayRef 1992461307724
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- 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 2018460276467 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 2018.