Serious unclassified road crash in Maidstone TN27 on 24 June 2025 at 17:12 involving a Renault Scenic
A motorcycle and a Renault Scenic were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone at 17:12 on Tuesday 24 June 2025. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jun 2025
- Tuesday, 17:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Renault Scenic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1679, longitude 0.63035, in the TN27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Headcorn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Headcorn & Sutton Valence, Maidstone, TN27 9SB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461608613
- 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
- 30 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, 51 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 December 1980.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 3 December 1980
51 m awayRef 1980461109750
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 25 February 2023
102 m awayRef 2023461281414
Slight
Nissan Vanette crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 30 March 1997
111 m awayRef 199746MA25558
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 21 January 1992
118 m awayRef 1992461305999
Slight
Car crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 2 July 1986
119 m awayRef 1986461107066
Slight
Car crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 8 September 1998
120 m awayRef 199846MA31259
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Renault Scenic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025461608613 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.