A6 crash in Bedford on 15 August 2013 at 16:35 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A6 in Bedford at 16:35 on Thursday 15 August 2013. The 24-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 2013
- Thursday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10828, longitude -0.47566, in the MK42 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wixams & Wilstead, Bedford, MK42 9XE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bedford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013400BA0923
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 421
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 July 2011.
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A6 in Bedford, 19 July 2011
At the same spotRef 2011400BA0024
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A6 in Bedford, 15 January 2008
At the same spotRef 2008400B00264
Slight
MAN crash on the A6 in Bedford, 14 August 2012
At the same spotRef 2012400BA0567
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A6 in Bedford, 26 October 2017
3 m awayRef 2017400237926
Slight
BMW X3 crash on the A5141 in Bedford, 27 October 2024
6 m awayRef 2024401519804
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A6 in Bedford, 19 January 2022
6 m awayRef 2022401137665
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2013400BA0923 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 2013.