{"id":1170416,"date":"2026-08-26T13:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1170416\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:21:17","slug":"motorcyclist-flown-to-london-hospital-after-crash-on-a26-maidstone-road-near-junction-of-old-church-road-in-mereworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1170416\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist flown to London hospital after crash on A26 Maidstone Road, near junction of Old Church Road in Mereworth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A motorcyclist remains in a serious condition after being airlifted to hospital following a crash.<\/p>\n<p>The police were called to the A26 Maidstone Road, close to the junction with Old Church Road in Mereworth near <a href=\"www.kentonline.co.uk\/maidstone\">Maidstone<\/a>, at 4.40pm on Tuesday last week (August 18).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 895 565\" alt=\"Kent Police was called at 4.40pm on Tuesday, August 18, to the incident on the A26 Maidstone Road, close to the junction with Old Church Road, Mereworth. Picture: Google Maps\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"0IMT3ZF3BNQ2OWNP1UJ4.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.58\"\/>Kent Police was called at 4.40pm on Tuesday, August 18, to the incident on the A26 Maidstone Road, close to the junction with Old Church Road, Mereworth. Picture: Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>The force said a white Sinnis Apache motorcycle was being driven towards <a href=\"www.kentonline.co.uk\/malling\">Tonbridge<\/a> when it was involved in a crash with a black Ford Fiesta travelling in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics attended the scene, where the motorcyclist, a man in his 20s, was airlifted to a London hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He remains there in a serious but stable condition. His next of kin is aware.<\/p>\n<p>Now witnesses and those with private CCTV or dashcam footage are asked to come forward to assist the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who saw either vehicle before the collision is urged to contact the appeals line.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers with dashcam which may assist can upload the footage using this link, <a href=\"https:\/\/kep.uk.evidence.com\/axon\/community-request\/public\/a26rtc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have information, call 01622 604100, quoting reference 18-1212.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist remains in a serious condition after being airlifted to hospital following a crash. The police were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1170417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[8502,748,393,4884,495,257,9137,56205,1492,16,15],"class_list":["post-1170416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-accidents","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-kent","tag-london","tag-maidstone","tag-malling","tag-police-appeals","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117162022498570633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1170417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}