A5 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 12 October 2014 at 19:05 involving a Peugeot 107
A Peugeot 107 and a car were involved in a crash on the A5 in Central Bedfordshire at 19:05 on Sunday 12 October 2014. A 33-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Peugeot 107 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2014
- Sunday, 19:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 107 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8921, longitude -0.52946, in the LU6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dunstable. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunstable North, Central Bedfordshire, LU6 1ED area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014404DA0954
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 July 2015.
Slight
Yamaha YZF R6 crash on the A5 in Central Bedfordshire, 10 July 2015
7 m awayRef 2015405DA0556
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A5 in Central Bedfordshire, 26 November 2014
7 m awayRef 2014404DA1101
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A5 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 July 2014
9 m awayRef 2014404DA0672
Slight
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on the A5 in Central Bedfordshire, 25 April 2015
10 m awayRef 2015405DA0323
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A5 in Central Bedfordshire, 11 August 2011
12 m awayRef 2011400DA0079
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A5 in Central Bedfordshire, 26 August 2010
12 m awayRef 2010400D02483
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 107
Car
- 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
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 107)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, 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 2014404DA0954 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.