Serious unclassified road crash in Bedford MK42 on 20 February 2005 at 12:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bedford at 12:35 on Sunday 20 February 2005. A 28-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Feb 2005
- Sunday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.11877, longitude -0.45996, in the MK42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bedford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cauldwell, Bedford, MK42 9UT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bedford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200540B005250
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 July 2016.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A5134 in Bedford, 30 July 2016
40 m awayRef 2016400097817
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 23 August 2005
41 m awayRef 200540B022980
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A5134 in Bedford, 27 July 2002
42 m awayRef 2002400B02499
Slight
Honda Concerto crash on the A5134 in Bedford, 15 October 1992
57 m awayRef 19924000B1124
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A5134 in Bedford, 11 February 1992
57 m awayRef 19924000B0171
Serious
Car crash on the A5134 in Bedford, 8 March 1981
57 m awayRef 19814000B0275
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200540B005250 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bedford road accident statistics for 2005.