Unclassified road crash in Bedford MK41 on 22 June 1996 at 11:00 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series crashed on an unclassified road in Bedford at 11:00 on Saturday 22 June 1996. The 75-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jun 1996
- Saturday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.15381, longitude -0.41404, in the MK41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bedford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19964000B0734
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
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 19964000B0734 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bedford road accident statistics for 1996.