A20 crash in Maidstone on 4 December 2020 at 11:50 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on the A20 in Maidstone at 11:50 on Friday 4 December 2020. The 48-year-old male driver of the Toyota Yaris was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2020
- Friday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27209, longitude 0.51889, 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
- 2020461004906
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 20
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 229
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 2016.
Slight
Mercedes B Class crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 10 October 2016
At the same spotRef 2016460116808
Serious
Rover Maestro crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 16 December 2000
2 m awayRef 200046MA34925
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 11 December 2003
2 m awayRef 200346MA86645
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 13 March 1992
2 m awayRef 1992461306544
Serious
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 13 June 2018
2 m awayRef 2018460305240
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A229 in Maidstone, 4 January 2018
3 m awayRef 2018460355136
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
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
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
- 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 2020461004906 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.