A4012 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 16 March 2001 at 10:30 involving a Vauxhall Omega
A Vauxhall Omega crashed on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire at 10:30 on Friday 16 March 2001. The 58-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 2001
- Friday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Omega
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.96951, longitude -0.60382, in the MK17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001400D00987
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4012
- 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
- Daylight
- 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 31 December 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 31 December 2007
10 m awayRef 2007400D00017
Serious
Hyundai Getz crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 19 May 2011
22 m awayRef 2011400D01362
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 19 February 2006
22 m awayRef 200640D004790
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 11 July 2005
32 m awayRef 200540D019840
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 25 June 2009
36 m awayRef 2009400D01794
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 9 March 1990
41 m awayRef 19904000D0459
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Omega
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Omega)
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 2001400D00987 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 2001.