Serious A20 crash in Maidstone on 11 July 2022 at 15:20 involving a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
A van, a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque and a car were involved in a crash on the A20 in Maidstone at 15:20 on Monday 11 July 2022. A 30-year-old female passenger in the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque was seriously injured and the 28-year-old male driver of the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque and a 1-year-old female passenger in the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Jul 2022
- Monday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Land Rover Range Rover Evoque and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23634, longitude 0.73178, in the ME17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lenham.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022461209601
- 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
- 50 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
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 14 July 1984
18 m awayRef 1984461105254
Serious
Lorry crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 15 July 1987
18 m awayRef 1987461107367
Slight
Lorry crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 18 January 1988
18 m awayRef 198846AA00738
Serious
Lorry crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 12 November 1980
18 m awayRef 1980461109140
Serious
Car crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 20 September 1981
18 m awayRef 1981461107311
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A20 in Maidstone, 28 August 2018
33 m awayRef 2018460325612
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Car
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Range Rover Evoque)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Range Rover Evoque)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 1, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Range Rover Evoque)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2022461209601 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.