A229 crash in Maidstone on 4 September 2018 at 12:00 involving a Rover 75
A Rover 75 and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A229 in Maidstone at 12:00 on Tuesday 4 September 2018. The 28-year-old female driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 2018
- Tuesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 75 and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27929, longitude 0.51806, in the ME14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maidstone. It is one of the crashes that make up the High Street, Maidstone, ME14 1TF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460328262
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 229
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Daylight
- 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, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 November 2025.
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 23 November 2025
7 m awayRef 2025461672713
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 20 September 2018
11 m awayRef 2018460343768
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 28 October 2012
16 m awayRef 2012460220063
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 8 January 2004
20 m awayRef 200446MA87938
Slight
Mini One crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 22 April 2023
25 m awayRef 2023461301825
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 22 June 2009
25 m awayRef 2009460173707
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 75
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018460328262 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.