Unclassified road crash in Bedford MK41 on 14 March 2014 at 16:00 involving an Aprilia SR 50 motorcycle
An Aprilia SR 50 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bedford at 16:00 on Friday 14 March 2014. The 17-year-old male rider of the Aprilia SR 50 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Mar 2014
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Aprilia SR 50 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.14896, longitude -0.4516, in the MK41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bedford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Putnoe, Bedford, MK41 9AT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bedford
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014404BA0212
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 2019.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 25 March 2019
3 m awayRef 2019400828329
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 18 June 2001
9 m awayRef 2001400B01990
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 19 November 2005
11 m awayRef 200540B032300
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 28 December 1998
19 m awayRef 1998400B06270
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 10 January 1993
42 m awayRef 19934000B0050
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 26 March 1990
42 m awayRef 19904000B0389
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Aprilia SR 50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Aprilia SR 50)
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 2014404BA0212 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 2014.