Serious unclassified road crash in Maidstone ME17 on 3 February 2025 at 09:38 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Peugeot 308 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone at 09:38 on Monday 3 February 2025. A 37-year-old female passenger in the Ford Transit van was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Feb 2025
- Monday, 09:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Peugeot 308
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23162, longitude 0.53803, in the ME17 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461565035
- Council area
- Maidstone
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Moderately 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 March 1986.
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 6 March 1986
10 m awayRef 1986461102396
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 21 December 2000
32 m awayRef 200046MA35260
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 30 October 1998
104 m awayRef 199846MA31813
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 13 July 1986
132 m awayRef 1986461107696
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 24 December 1994
138 m awayRef 1994461317154
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 5 December 2022
183 m awayRef 2022461254064
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 308
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 37, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025461565035 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 2025.