B4541 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 16 April 1999 at 19:50
A vehicle crashed on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire at 19:50 on Friday 16 April 1999. A 43-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 1999
- Friday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86366, longitude -0.53579, in the LU6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199940D099299
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4541
- 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2002.
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 14 December 2002
22 m awayRef 2002400D04148
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 22 June 1998
45 m awayRef 19984000D0596
Serious
Honda CBF125M crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 24 March 2012
81 m awayRef 2012400DA0203
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 13 April 1999
81 m awayRef 199940D092299
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 3 October 2013
108 m awayRef 2013400DA0671
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 18 March 2023
110 m awayRef 2023401288515
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 43, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
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 199940D099299 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.