A274 crash in Maidstone on 18 September 2025 at 13:14 involving a Chevrolet Captiva
A Chevrolet Captiva and a Volkswagen ID4 were involved in a crash on the A274 in Maidstone at 13:14 on Thursday 18 September 2025. The 41-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen ID4 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2025
- Thursday, 13:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Chevrolet Captiva and Volkswagen ID4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.16769, longitude 0.62333, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Maidstone
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461652655
- 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
- A
- First road number
- 274
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 2019.
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on an unclassified road in Maidstone, 10 January 2019
5 m awayRef 2019460355366
Serious
Car crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 13 October 1981
9 m awayRef 1981461108321
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 1 November 1986
9 m awayRef 1986461112506
Slight
Car crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 10 November 1981
9 m awayRef 1981461109411
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 12 September 1998
9 m awayRef 199846MA31492
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A274 in Maidstone, 2 March 1995
9 m awayRef 1995461317815
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Chevrolet Captiva
Car
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen ID4
Car
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen ID4)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2025461652655 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.