A4012 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 26 December 2007 at 07:46 involving a Mazda 323
A Mazda 323 crashed on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire at 07:46 on Wednesday 26 December 2007. The 32-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2007
- Wednesday, 07:46
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 323
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.94801, longitude -0.58091, in the LU7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007400D04050
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4012
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 85 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 January 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the B528 in Central Bedfordshire, 20 January 1979
85 m awayRef 19794000D0176
Serious
Van crash on the B528 in Central Bedfordshire, 6 August 1981
85 m awayRef 19814000D1613
Slight
Suzuki UK 110 crash on the B5704 in Central Bedfordshire, 26 June 2021
138 m awayRef 2021401062154
Slight
Car crash on the B528 in Central Bedfordshire, 15 September 1981
177 m awayRef 19814000D1890
Serious
Volkswagen Urban crash on the B5704 in Central Bedfordshire, 29 January 2020
181 m awayRef 2020400925328
Slight
Car crash on the B528 in Central Bedfordshire, 20 May 1984
182 m awayRef 19844000D0748
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,489 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 323)
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 2007400D04050 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 2007.