Serious A6001 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 22 November 2005 at 17:07 involving a Mazda Premacy
A car and a Mazda Premacy were involved in a crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire at 17:07 on Tuesday 22 November 2005. The 40-year-old female driver of the Mazda Premacy was seriously injured and an 8-year-old female passenger in the Mazda Premacy 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
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Nov 2005
- Tuesday, 17:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mazda Premacy
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.0724, longitude -0.2672, in the SG18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200540B030560
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6001
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 February 2004.
Slight
Car crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 23 February 2004
14 m awayRef 2004400B00682
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the B659 in Central Bedfordshire, 8 March 2023
25 m awayRef 2023401288662
Slight
Jaguar S Type crash on the B659 in Central Bedfordshire, 6 March 2011
50 m awayRef 2011400B00900
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 30 November 2007
58 m awayRef 2007400B03731
Slight
Car crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 5 May 2006
58 m awayRef 200640D010990
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 12 February 1999
58 m awayRef 199940B042499
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Mazda Premacy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,840 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda Premacy)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda Premacy)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200540B030560 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 2005.