Unclassified road crash in Bedford MK42 on 12 May 2006 at 17:10 involving a Rover 800 Series
A Rover 800 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bedford at 17:10 on Friday 12 May 2006. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 2006
- Friday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 800 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.11778, longitude -0.45985, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200640B011630
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 7 June 1983
58 m awayRef 19834000B0596
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Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 23 February 1996
58 m awayRef 19964000B0233
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Toyota Prius crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 22 August 2019
65 m awayRef 2019400888113
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Honda crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 27 February 2000
85 m awayRef 2000400B00687
Slight
Car crash on the A5134 in Bedford, 9 June 1988
86 m awayRef 19884000B0525
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 13 November 1979
86 m awayRef 19794000B1409
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 800 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 800 Series)
- 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 200640B011630 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 2006.