Serious unclassified road crash in Maidstone ME15 on 26 October 2018 at 17:15 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone at 17:15 on Friday 26 October 2018. The 36-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Oct 2018
- Friday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23595, longitude 0.48299, in the ME15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coxheath & Farleigh, Maidstone, ME17 4TT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460340983
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Authorised person
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 2012.
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 29 November 2012
4 m awayRef 2012460221462
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 4 August 2007
4 m awayRef 2007460144893
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 12 July 2018
6 m awayRef 2018460313357
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 11 October 2018
6 m awayRef 2018460337552
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 31 May 2025
7 m awayRef 2025461596841
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 27 September 1994
9 m awayRef 1994461316059
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018460340983 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.