Serious A4012 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 30 June 2011 at 16:20 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire at 16:20 on Thursday 30 June 2011. The 47-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jun 2011
- Thursday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.91908, longitude -0.64392, in the LU7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leighton Buzzard. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leighton-Linslade South, Central Bedfordshire, LU7 3NA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011400D01765
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4012
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 2013.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 October 2013
14 m awayRef 2013400DA0713
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 23 October 2007
14 m awayRef 2007400D03272
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 4 March 2003
14 m awayRef 2003400D00675
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 4 February 2005
22 m awayRef 200540D004180
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A4012 in Central Bedfordshire, 5 October 2007
22 m awayRef 2007400D03069
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 3 November 2000
30 m awayRef 2000400D03363
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 47, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2011400D01765 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.