Serious unclassified road crash in Maidstone ME17 on 1 June 2020 at 15:30 involving a van
A van and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone at 15:30 on Monday 1 June 2020. The 16-year-old male cyclist 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
- 1 Jun 2020
- Monday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27184, longitude 0.65182, in the ME17 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020460955285
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Less 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 2012.
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 28 February 2012
19 m awayRef 2012460211225
Serious
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 26 June 2020
31 m awayRef 2020460963485
Serious
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 13 June 2020
34 m awayRef 2020460959603
Serious
Car crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 19 September 1982
47 m awayRef 1982461107612
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 28 February 2003
54 m awayRef 200346MA73618
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B2163 in Maidstone, 13 December 2010
82 m awayRef 2010460194833
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 16, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2020460955285 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 2020.