Unclassified road crash in Bedford MK42 on 14 December 2011 at 17:25 involving a Mercedes SLK Class
A car and a Mercedes SLK Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bedford at 17:25 on Wednesday 14 December 2011. The 24-year-old female driver of the Mercedes SLK Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2011
- Wednesday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes SLK Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12035, longitude -0.49146, in the MK42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kempston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kempston Central & East, Bedford, MK42 8HA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bedford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011400BA0505
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 531
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2009.
Slight
Car crash on the B531 in Bedford, 11 November 2009
At the same spotRef 2009400B03305
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on the B531 in Bedford, 11 July 2009
At the same spotRef 2009400B01964
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B531 in Bedford, 1 December 2010
At the same spotRef 2010400B03639
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B531 in Bedford, 27 January 2004
At the same spotRef 2004400B00321
Serious
Fiat Tempra crash on the B531 in Central Bedfordshire, 20 June 2000
14 m awayRef 2000400B01893
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the B531 in Bedford, 12 March 2016
16 m awayRef 2016406BA0244
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Mercedes SLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North 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
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes SLK Class)
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 2011400BA0505 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bedford road accident statistics for 2011.