B4541 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 16 August 2006 at 16:58 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo crashed on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire at 16:58 on Wednesday 16 August 2006. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 2006
- Wednesday, 16:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86736, longitude -0.53669, in the LU6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200640D020000
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4541
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Raining, no high winds
- 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 12 July 1999.
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 12 July 1999
10 m awayRef 199940D184999
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Ford Puma crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 30 November 2004
10 m awayRef 2004400D03592
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Renault Megane crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 3 October 2004
10 m awayRef 2004400D02963
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Peugeot 406 crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 6 May 2008
10 m awayRef 2008400C01414
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Peugeot 206 crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 1 October 2005
10 m awayRef 200540D026970
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Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 13 August 2021
12 m awayRef 2021401082781
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 200640D020000 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.