A5120 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 4 April 1999 at 20:40 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova crashed on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire at 20:40 on Sunday 4 April 1999. The 45-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 1999
- Sunday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.93524, longitude -0.53637, in the LU5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199940D087499
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5120
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2003.
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 17 December 2003
10 m awayRef 2003400D03859
Serious
Renault Espace crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 9 October 2005
10 m awayRef 200540D026660
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 1 March 2023
16 m awayRef 2023401288485
Slight
Car crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 18 April 2006
20 m awayRef 200640D009690
Slight
Car crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 6 October 1989
28 m awayRef 19894000D1735
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 2 April 1996
28 m awayRef 19964000D0413
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
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 199940D087499 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.