A6 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 13 March 2014 at 23:33 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire at 23:33 on Thursday 13 March 2014. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Mar 2014
- Thursday, 23:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.99131, longitude -0.42571, in the MK45 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westoning, Flitton & Greenfield, Central Bedfordshire, MK45 4QR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014404DA0218
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 April 2025.
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 5 April 2025
8 m awayRef 2025401578543
Serious
Car crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 27 December 1981
16 m awayRef 19814000D2648
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 7 February 1995
16 m awayRef 19954000E0127
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 11 August 1994
16 m awayRef 19944000E0746
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 27 February 2008
20 m awayRef 2008400B00689
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 10 November 2009
20 m awayRef 2009400D03231
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2014404DA0218 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.