A4012 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 6 April 1999 at 13:40 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire at 13:40 on Tuesday 6 April 1999. All five casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Apr 1999
- Tuesday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92334, longitude -0.60758, in the LU7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199940D084199
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4012
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 11 July 2009
At the same spotRef 2009400D02501
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 March 2008
At the same spotRef 2008400D00905
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 7 April 2008
At the same spotRef 2008400D01139
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 April 2011
At the same spotRef 2011400D01188
Fatal
Kawasaki ZX750 crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 28 August 2001
At the same spotRef 2001400D02775
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 18 November 2021
2 m awayRef 2021401118109
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199940D084199 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 1999.