A4012 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 28 March 2005 at 13:53 involving a Ducati 749 S motorcycle
A car and a Ducati 749 S motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire at 13:53 on Monday 28 March 2005. A 23-year-old female passenger on the Ducati 749 S motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 2005
- Monday, 13:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ducati 749 S
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.97052, longitude -0.60539, in the MK17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200540D008910
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4012
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 89 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 2017.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 2 February 2017
89 m awayRef 2017400154288
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 9 January 2011
106 m awayRef 2011400D00055
Serious
Suzuki SV 650 crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 May 2014
112 m awayRef 2014404DA0478
Slight
Car crash on the B528 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 June 1979
112 m awayRef 19794000D1353
Slight
Lorry crash on the B528 in Luton, 22 November 1984
112 m awayRef 19844000D1990
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 31 December 2007
149 m awayRef 2007400D00017
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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: Ducati 749 S
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Ducati 749 S)
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 200540D008910 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.