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Serious unclassified road crash in Central Bedfordshire SG19 on 30 December 1997 at 21:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire at 21:00 on Tuesday 30 December 1997. A 44-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
30 Dec 1997
Tuesday, 21:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12867, longitude -0.28783, in the SG19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sandy.

Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19974000E1207
Council area
Central Bedfordshire
Police force
Bedfordshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 May 1980.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 19974000E1207 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.