A6001 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 6 October 2014 at 10:55 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A car and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire at 10:55 on Monday 6 October 2014. A 70-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira 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
- 6 Oct 2014
- Monday, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08679, longitude -0.26377, in the SG18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Biggleswade. It is one of the crashes that make up the Biggleswade West, Central Bedfordshire, SG18 0AH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014404BA0922
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 July 2009.
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 19 July 2009
7 m awayRef 2009400B02071
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 22 December 2006
8 m awayRef 200640B000600
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 August 2017
23 m awayRef 2017400217705
Serious
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 30 January 2009
27 m awayRef 2009400B00321
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 30 June 2012
28 m awayRef 2012400BA0434
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 19 April 2001
29 m awayRef 2001400B01404
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2014404BA0922 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 2014.