Serious B2264 crash in Maidstone on 6 April 2018 at 18:59 involving a Toyota Aygo
A Toyota Aygo hit a pedestrian on the B2264 in Maidstone at 18:59 on Friday 6 April 2018. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Apr 2018
- Friday, 18:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Aygo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27036, longitude 0.48258, in the ME16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maidstone. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fant & Oakwood, Maidstone, ME16 8DQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Maidstone
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460285381
- 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
- 2264
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 July 2022.
Slight
Rieju MRT crash on the B2246 in Maidstone, 12 July 2022
15 m awayRef 2022461205634
Serious
Yamaha crash on a C road in Maidstone, 29 September 2007
15 m awayRef 2007460147470
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the B2246 in Maidstone, 17 March 2020
26 m awayRef 2020460942606
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 24 November 1987
30 m awayRef 1987461113777
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 16 August 1979
30 m awayRef 1979461106329
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 10 January 1987
30 m awayRef 1987461100337
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Aygo)
- Pedestrian location
- On refuge, central island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018460285381 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.