A5120 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 18 April 2006 at 19:44 involving a car
A car crashed on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire at 19:44 on Tuesday 18 April 2006. The 23-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Apr 2006
- Tuesday, 19:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.93506, longitude -0.53638, in the LU5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200640D009690
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5120
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2023.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 1 March 2023
4 m awayRef 2023401288485
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 15 January 1999
10 m awayRef 199940D013999
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 17 December 2003
10 m awayRef 2003400D03859
Serious
Bedford crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 11 March 1994
20 m awayRef 19944000D0255
Slight
Car crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 16 January 1997
20 m awayRef 19974000D0060
Slight
Car crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 19 November 1981
20 m awayRef 19814000D2369
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200640D009690 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 2006.