A5141 crash in Bedford on 15 January 2012 at 15:30 involving a Honda Civic
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jan 2012
- Sunday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12522, longitude -0.47172, in the MK42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bedford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kempston Central & East, Bedford, MK42 7NZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012400BA0042
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5141
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 14 October 2002.
Slight
Yamaha Jog R crash on the A6 in Bedford, 14 October 2002
At the same spotRef 2002400B03255
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A6 in Bedford, 25 March 2008
At the same spotRef 2008400B00996
Slight
Honda GLR 125 crash on the A5141 in Bedford, 7 December 2025
1 m awayRef 2025401698588
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the A5141 in Bedford, 8 September 2025
1 m awayRef 2025401645337
Slight
Volvo XC90 crash on the A5141 in Bedford, 1 May 2021
8 m awayRef 2021401052221
Serious
Suzuki Alto crash on the A6 in Bedford, 12 February 2009
10 m awayRef 2009400B00694
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
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 2012400BA0042 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 2012.