Serious B655 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 11 February 1997 at 07:27 involving a car
A car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire at 07:27 on Tuesday 11 February 1997. The 37-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Feb 1997
- Tuesday, 07:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.95801, longitude -0.3642, in the SG5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974000E0155
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 655
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 20 December 1983
At the same spotRef 19834000D2249
Slight
Car crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 8 February 1985
At the same spotRef 19854000D0201
Slight
Car crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 26 January 1997
At the same spotRef 19974000E0126
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 19 October 2025
79 m awayRef 2025401668485
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 13 January 1999
81 m awayRef 199940E019599
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 25 March 2006
85 m awayRef 200640D007600
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 37, 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 19974000E0155 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 1997.