C road crash in Central Bedfordshire MK45 on 20 September 2004 at 18:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire at 18:00 on Monday 20 September 2004. The 19-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 2004
- Monday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.00332, longitude -0.49423, in the MK45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Flitwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Flitwick, Central Bedfordshire, MK45 1BF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004400D02823
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 5120
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 26 February 2011
At the same spotRef 2011400D00596
Slight
Renault Extra crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 11 December 2001
At the same spotRef 2001400D00112
Serious
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 28 April 2025
10 m awayRef 2025401603995
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 27 August 2025
11 m awayRef 2025401637193
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 15 May 2016
13 m awayRef 2016400072575
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 18 April 2016
15 m awayRef 2016400061915
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2004400D02823 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 2004.