A507 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 16 February 2002 at 07:45 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire at 07:45 on Saturday 16 February 2002. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 2002
- Saturday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02563, longitude -0.31609, in the SG17 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002400D00655
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 507
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 600
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 2014.
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 14 February 2014
13 m awayRef 2014404DA0150
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 12 December 2024
15 m awayRef 2024401535929
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 28 July 2003
20 m awayRef 2003400D02235
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A600 in Central Bedfordshire, 17 July 1980
30 m awayRef 19804000D1390
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 13 July 2024
41 m awayRef 2024401467960
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A600 in Central Bedfordshire, 8 November 2011
41 m awayRef 2011400DA0371
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2002400D00655 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 2002.