Serious A4012 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 19 May 2011 at 16:10 involving a Hyundai Getz
A Hyundai Getz and a Fiat Doblo van were involved in a crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire at 16:10 on Thursday 19 May 2011. The 45-year-old male driver of the Fiat Doblo van 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
- 19 May 2011
- Thursday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai Getz and Fiat Doblo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.96941, longitude -0.60353, in the MK17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011400D01362
- 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 19 February 2006.
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 19 February 2006
At the same spotRef 200640D004790
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 11 July 2005
10 m awayRef 200540D019840
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 25 June 2009
14 m awayRef 2009400D01794
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 16 March 2001
22 m awayRef 2001400D00987
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on the B5704 in Central Bedfordshire, 5 November 2019
24 m awayRef 2019400898960
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 31 December 2007
28 m awayRef 2007400D00017
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Getz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,086 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Doblo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 45, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Doblo)
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 2011400D01362 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 2011.