B659 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 28 February 2012 at 18:47 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the B659 in Central Bedfordshire at 18:47 on Tuesday 28 February 2012. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Feb 2012
- Tuesday, 18:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07196, longitude -0.26766, in the SG18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012400BA0128
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 659
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 5 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200640D010990
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 12 February 1999
At the same spotRef 199940B042499
Slight
Jaguar S Type crash on the B659 in Central Bedfordshire, 6 March 2011
10 m awayRef 2011400B00900
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 6 February 2002
10 m awayRef 2002400B00469
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the B659 in Central Bedfordshire, 10 December 2015
16 m awayRef 2015405BA1227
Fatal
BMW 3 Series crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 24 September 2001
20 m awayRef 2001400B03074
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 2012400BA0128 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 2012.