Unclassified road crash in Maidstone ME18 on 29 June 2019 at 01:15 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone at 01:15 on Saturday 29 June 2019. The 51-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jun 2019
- Saturday, 01:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22036, longitude 0.42161, in the ME18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marden & Yalding, Maidstone, ME18 6DF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019460864308
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 8 September 1984
19 m awayRef 1984461106974
Slight
Car crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 11 February 2004
63 m awayRef 200446MA89756
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 14 November 1991
76 m awayRef 199146AA54811
Slight
Car crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 11 August 2013
85 m awayRef 2013460230757
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 31 January 2006
88 m awayRef 2006460121435
Slight
Jeep Patriot crash on the B2162 in Maidstone, 21 June 2016
90 m awayRef 2016460083894
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 51, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019460864308 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 2019.