Serious unclassified road crash in Central Bedfordshire SG16 on 12 February 2005 at 23:32 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire at 23:32 on Saturday 12 February 2005. The 35-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Feb 2005
- Saturday, 23:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03748, longitude -0.28984, in the SG16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clifton, Henlow & Langford, Central Bedfordshire, SG16 6GT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200540D013820
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 24 January 2000
14 m awayRef 2000400D00318
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 24 January 2006
20 m awayRef 200640D003060
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 9 March 2012
30 m awayRef 2012400DA0177
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 27 June 2018
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Slight
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48 m awayRef 2025401639171
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 19 January 1990
60 m awayRef 19904000D0125
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 200540D013820 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.