A428 crash in Bedford on 26 May 2000 at 22:35 involving an Audi 80
An Audi 80 and an Aprilia motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A428 in Bedford at 22:35 on Friday 26 May 2000. The 32-year-old male rider of the Aprilia motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 2000
- Friday, 22:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi 80 and Aprilia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.14257, longitude -0.4305, in the MK41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bedford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000400B01588
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 428
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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 24 October 1989.
Serious
Scooter crash on the A428 in Bedford, 24 October 1989
At the same spotRef 19894000B1152
Slight
MAN crash on the A428 in Bedford, 31 March 2005
At the same spotRef 200540B009420
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on the A4280 in Bedford, 31 December 2015
4 m awayRef 2015405BA1271
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4280 in Bedford, 18 March 2016
7 m awayRef 2016406BA0264
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4280 in Bedford, 11 April 2025
9 m awayRef 2025401577364
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the A4280 in Bedford, 5 September 2021
9 m awayRef 2021401141313
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi 80
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Aprilia
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Aprilia)
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 2000400B01588 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 2000.