A6001 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 16 July 2001 at 18:10 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire at 18:10 on Monday 16 July 2001. The 15-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 2001
- Monday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03769, longitude -0.28575, in the SG16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Henlow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clifton, Henlow & Langford, Central Bedfordshire, SG16 6GT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001400D02437
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6001
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 2020.
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the B659 in Central Bedfordshire, 12 June 2020
9 m awayRef 2020400960540
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the B659 in Central Bedfordshire, 1 August 2012
10 m awayRef 2012400DA0622
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 May 2001
10 m awayRef 2001400D01873
Slight
Ford B-Max crash on the B659 in Central Bedfordshire, 5 September 2018
11 m awayRef 2018400326530
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A600 in Central Bedfordshire, 29 April 2000
14 m awayRef 2000400D01332
Serious
Honda crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 12 August 2008
14 m awayRef 2008400D02456
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 15, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2001400D02437 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.