C road crash in Central Bedfordshire SG19 on 1 July 1980 at 18:40 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Central Bedfordshire at 18:40 on Tuesday 1 July 1980. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 1980
- Tuesday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13583, longitude -0.22473, in the SG19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19804000D1263
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 79 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 January 2016.
Serious
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Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 17 October 2005
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Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 7 September 1998
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Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 19 June 2012
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 20 June 1981
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 22 September 1981
224 m awayRef 19814000D1933
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 19804000D1263 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Central Bedfordshire road accident statistics for 1980.