Unclassified road crash in Bedford MK42 on 19 April 2014 at 20:33 involving a Ford Galaxy
A Ford Galaxy hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bedford at 20:33 on Saturday 19 April 2014. A 2-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Apr 2014
- Saturday, 20:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12404, longitude -0.46435, in the MK42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bedford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kingsbrook, Bedford, MK42 0NX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bedford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014404BA0351
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Bedford, 30 June 1980
33 m awayRef 19804000B0827
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 26 October 1993
33 m awayRef 19934000B1391
Serious
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 24 December 2019
59 m awayRef 2019400917317
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 18 October 2014
61 m awayRef 2014404BA1005
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 11 November 2015
62 m awayRef 2015405BA1061
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 31 October 2014
63 m awayRef 2014404BA1041
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 2, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Galaxy)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2014404BA0351 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.