A20 crash in Maidstone on 31 July 2020 at 13:37 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Nissan Juke were involved in a crash on the A20 in Maidstone at 13:37 on Friday 31 July 2020. The 83-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 54-year-old female driver of the Nissan Juke were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 2020
- Friday, 13:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Nissan Juke
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24281, longitude 0.66353, in the ME17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harrietsham, Lenham & North Downs, Maidstone, ME17 1AB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020461006766
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 20
- 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
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 2002.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 21 May 2002
8 m awayRef 200246MA59810
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 13 October 1996
30 m awayRef 199646MA23747
Slight
Porsche 911 crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 12 May 2001
33 m awayRef 200146MA40712
Slight
Lorry crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 19 July 1988
38 m awayRef 198846AA07408
Slight
Lorry crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 5 June 1989
38 m awayRef 198946AA05639
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 25 July 1998
38 m awayRef 199846MA30672
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Juke
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Juke)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020461006766 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.