A5065 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 11 November 1999 at 08:43 involving a Mitsubishi
A Mitsubishi and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A5065 in Central Bedfordshire at 08:43 on Thursday 11 November 1999. The 39-year-old female driver of the Mitsubishi and the 31-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Nov 1999
- Thursday, 08:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8873, longitude -0.47181, in the LU4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199940D321999
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5065
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 December 2004.
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5065 in Central Bedfordshire, 22 December 2004
At the same spotRef 2004400D03790
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5065 in Central Bedfordshire, 19 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200540D013520
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 22 December 2017
2 m awayRef 2017400255617
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A5065 in Central Bedfordshire, 13 May 2023
3 m awayRef 2023401310025
Fatal
Jaguar XF Series crash on the A5065 in Central Bedfordshire, 29 October 2024
5 m awayRef 2024401512751
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 6 April 2017
8 m awayRef 2017400173606
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 199940D321999 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.