A4012 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 7 January 2010 at 21:15 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire at 21:15 on Thursday 7 January 2010. The 24-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jan 2010
- Thursday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.96518, longitude -0.59508, in the MK17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010400D00166
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 June 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 20 June 2004
14 m awayRef 2004400D01825
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 23 March 2003
22 m awayRef 2003400D01027
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 11 August 2010
28 m awayRef 2010400D02316
Slight
Car crash on the B528 in Central Bedfordshire, 10 September 1983
36 m awayRef 19834000D1488
Slight
Car crash on the B528 in Bedford, 4 April 1984
36 m awayRef 19844000D0512
Serious
Car crash on the B528 in Central Bedfordshire, 9 November 1984
36 m awayRef 19844000D1876
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 2010400D00166 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 2010.