Unclassified road crash in Maidstone ME17 on 2 November 2018 at 17:47 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Volkswagen Transporter van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone at 17:47 on Friday 2 November 2018. The 36-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Nov 2018
- Friday, 17:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Volkswagen Transporter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24738, longitude 0.61748, in the ME17 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018460352120
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
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 slight injury crash on 6 December 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 6 December 2007
7 m awayRef 2007460150389
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 8 April 2007
7 m awayRef 2007460140415
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 12 December 2018
8 m awayRef 2018460353762
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 19 January 2012
35 m awayRef 2012460209477
Serious
Fiat Cinquecento crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 13 October 1996
45 m awayRef 199646MA23758
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 16 July 2003
145 m awayRef 200346MA79701
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- 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
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2018460352120 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.