Unclassified road crash in Bedford MK42 on 28 December 1998 at 13:25 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bedford at 13:25 on Monday 28 December 1998. A 72-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 1998
- Monday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.11791, longitude -0.49463, in the MK42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kempston.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998400B06232
- Council area
- Bedford
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 72, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- 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 1998400B06232 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.