Serious A507 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 18 May 2012 at 16:48 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 crashed on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire at 16:48 on Friday 18 May 2012. The 62-year-old female driver 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
- 18 May 2012
- Friday, 16:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02701, longitude -0.39548, in the SG17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012400BA0341
- 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
- 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, 23 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 July 2024.
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 30 July 2024
23 m awayRef 2024401475187
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 September 1993
36 m awayRef 19934000E0794
Slight
Car crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 20 October 1987
36 m awayRef 19874000D1889
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 26 February 2000
67 m awayRef 2000400D00721
Slight
Renault crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 10 March 1994
85 m awayRef 19944000E0277
Slight
Lorry crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 20 March 1987
85 m awayRef 19874000D0424
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C3)
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 2012400BA0341 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.