B4541 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 30 November 2004 at 19:50 involving a Ford Puma
A Ford Puma crashed on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire at 19:50 on Tuesday 30 November 2004. The 34-year-old male driver 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
- 30 Nov 2004
- Tuesday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Puma
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86735, longitude -0.53654, in the LU6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004400D03592
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4541
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 2006.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 16 August 2006
10 m awayRef 200640D020000
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 13 August 2021
12 m awayRef 2021401082781
Serious
Honda CBR125R crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 August 2020
12 m awayRef 2020400974770
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 6 May 2008
14 m awayRef 2008400C01414
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 12 July 1999
14 m awayRef 199940D184999
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 3 October 2004
14 m awayRef 2004400D02963
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Puma
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,679 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Puma)
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 2004400D03592 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.