A507 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 13 August 2011 at 12:35 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire at 12:35 on Saturday 13 August 2011. The 49-year-old female driver of the Citroen Xsara, the 29-year-old male driver of the Ford KA and a 28-year-old male passenger in the Citroen Xsara were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Aug 2011
- Saturday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Xsara and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02617, longitude -0.27292, in the SG16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011400DA0271
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 507
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 2024.
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 9 January 2024
23 m awayRef 2024401411949
Serious
Car crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 28 October 1997
32 m awayRef 19974000E0980
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 25 October 1992
32 m awayRef 19924000D1607
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 7 September 2014
36 m awayRef 2014404DA0828
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 6 November 2003
40 m awayRef 2003400D03357
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 13 April 2017
42 m awayRef 2017400185001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
- 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 2011400DA0271 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.