Unclassified road crash in Central Bedfordshire MK45 on 3 November 2000 at 20:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire at 20:00 on Friday 3 November 2000. A 2-year-old male passenger 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
- 3 Nov 2000
- Friday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.98353, longitude -0.43213, in the MK45 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000400D03389
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 2014.
Slight
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Serious
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Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 15 June 2005
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Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 27 November 1996
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Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 2000400D03389 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 2000.