A4012 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 21 May 2008 at 19:00 involving a Mazda MX-5
A car and a Mazda MX-5 were involved in a crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire at 19:00 on Wednesday 21 May 2008. The 57-year-old female driver of the car and the 22-year-old female driver of the Mazda MX-5 were 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
- 21 May 2008
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92325, longitude -0.60773, 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
- 2008400D01616
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 1 August 2005.
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 1 August 2005
At the same spotRef 200540D021950
Serious
Hyundai i10 crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 3 August 2023
7 m awayRef 2023401341879
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 29 November 2004
10 m awayRef 2004400D03570
Serious
Triumph crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 17 July 1999
10 m awayRef 199940D213899
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 January 2007
10 m awayRef 2007400D00277
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 6 April 1999
14 m awayRef 199940D084199
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,839 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda MX-5)
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 2008400D01616 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 2008.