A4012 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 11 July 2009 at 11:54 involving a Vauxhall Meriva
A Vauxhall Meriva and a Citroen Xsara were involved in a crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire at 11:54 on Saturday 11 July 2009. The 20-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Meriva 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
- 11 Jul 2009
- Saturday, 11:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Meriva and Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92334, longitude -0.60758, 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
- 2009400D02501
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2008.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 March 2008
At the same spotRef 2008400D00905
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 7 April 2008
At the same spotRef 2008400D01139
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 6 April 1999
At the same spotRef 199940D084199
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 April 2011
At the same spotRef 2011400D01188
Fatal
Kawasaki ZX750 crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 28 August 2001
At the same spotRef 2001400D02775
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 18 November 2021
2 m awayRef 2021401118109
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Meriva)
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 2009400D02501 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 2009.