C road crash in Bedford MK44 on 4 June 1998 at 23:35 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on a C road in Bedford at 23:35 on Thursday 4 June 1998. The 16-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jun 1998
- Thursday, 23:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21509, longitude -0.56556, in the MK44 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984000B0583
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 224 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 August 1998.
Slight
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Serious
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224 m awayRef 19804000B0413
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Bedford, 3 December 2001
240 m awayRef 2001400B03946
Slight
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bedford, 25 April 1982
300 m awayRef 19824000B0445
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 19984000B0583 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 1998.