M20 crash in Maidstone on 24 February 2022 at 07:20 involving a Honda Jazz
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 2022
- Thursday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Jazz and Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2156, longitude 0.72573, in the ME17 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022461149034
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 20
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 12 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 October 2016.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M20 in Maidstone, 9 October 2016
12 m awayRef 2016460115384
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the M20 in Maidstone, 27 June 1999
13 m awayRef 199946MA02756
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the M20 in Maidstone, 31 August 2016
21 m awayRef 2016460102584
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the M20 in Maidstone, 19 November 1996
27 m awayRef 199646MA24192
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the M20 in Maidstone, 23 March 2014
35 m awayRef 2014460239784
Slight
Yamaha R6 crash on the M20 in Maidstone, 8 November 2007
41 m awayRef 2007460149026
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat 500)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2022461149034 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 2022.