Serious A4012 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 18 June 2010 at 07:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire at 07:00 on Friday 18 June 2010. The 22-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jun 2010
- Friday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92857, longitude -0.59404, in the LU7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010400D01792
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 July 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 12 July 2000
At the same spotRef 2000400D02082
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 12 June 2007
10 m awayRef 2007400D01821
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 24 September 2014
13 m awayRef 2014404DA0912
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 23 December 2021
14 m awayRef 2021401128233
Slight
Car crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 17 September 1987
30 m awayRef 19874000D1614
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 7 November 1998
30 m awayRef 19984000D1096
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 84 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2010400D01792 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.