B4541 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 13 July 2010 at 05:28 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire at 05:28 on Tuesday 13 July 2010. The 17-year-old female driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 2010
- Tuesday, 05:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87995, longitude -0.53686, in the LU6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dunstable. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunstable West, Central Bedfordshire, LU6 3JZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010400D02046
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4541
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 2017.
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 11 January 2017
6 m awayRef 2017400148721
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 17 November 2017
11 m awayRef 2017400247782
Slight
Lorry crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 15 July 1985
32 m awayRef 19854000D1164
Serious
Car crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 30 January 1983
32 m awayRef 19834000D0147
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 7 October 1995
32 m awayRef 19954000D1000
Slight
Car crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 5 March 1981
32 m awayRef 19814000D0478
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2010400D02046 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.