A6001 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 11 February 2013 at 07:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire at 07:00 on Monday 11 February 2013. The 40-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 2013
- Monday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08553, longitude -0.25502, in the SG18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Biggleswade. It is one of the crashes that make up the Biggleswade East, Central Bedfordshire, SG18 0NH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013400BA0084
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6001
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 February 2019.
Slight
Mini Clubman crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 19 February 2019
42 m awayRef 2019400820607
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 8 July 1999
45 m awayRef 199940B192899
Slight
Van crash on the B1040 in Central Bedfordshire, 9 July 1984
57 m awayRef 19844000D1099
Serious
Car crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 17 November 1980
57 m awayRef 19804000D2421
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the B1040 in Central Bedfordshire, 27 June 1992
72 m awayRef 19924000D0897
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 23 February 1995
72 m awayRef 19954000E0175
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 40, 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 2013400BA0084 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 2013.