Serious unclassified road crash in Bedford MK44 on 22 November 2014 at 18:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Bedford at 18:15 on Saturday 22 November 2014. The 18-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Nov 2014
- Saturday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20083, longitude -0.3557, in the MK44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bedford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014404BA1146
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 37 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 13 July 1984
37 m awayRef 19844000B0662
Slight
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 25 November 1996
75 m awayRef 19964000B1394
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 2 July 1997
75 m awayRef 19974000B0778
Serious
Citroen Xantia crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 24 January 1995
82 m awayRef 19954000B0108
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 16 May 1991
219 m awayRef 19914000B0396
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 8 April 1998
289 m awayRef 19984000B0372
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2014404BA1146 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.