B658 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 5 September 2005 at 07:40 involving a van
A van crashed on the B658 in Central Bedfordshire at 07:40 on Monday 5 September 2005. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2005
- Monday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05773, longitude -0.30365, in the SG18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200540D025470
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 658
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B658 in Central Bedfordshire, 18 January 1986
10 m awayRef 19864000D0169
Slight
Car crash on the B658 in Central Bedfordshire, 6 December 1987
10 m awayRef 19874000D2283
Serious
Piaggio Zip crash on the B658 in Central Bedfordshire, 26 August 2007
32 m awayRef 2007400D02673
Fatal
Peugeot 205 crash on the B658 in Central Bedfordshire, 11 March 2002
36 m awayRef 2002400D00853
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B658 in Central Bedfordshire, 2 May 2024
41 m awayRef 2024401447652
Slight
Mini One crash on the B658 in Central Bedfordshire, 19 July 2014
44 m awayRef 2014404BA0653
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 200540D025470 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.