A507 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 15 November 2014 at 17:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire at 17:45 on Saturday 15 November 2014. The 22-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Nov 2014
- Saturday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02618, longitude -0.26587, in the SG15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Arlesey.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014404DA1063
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 507
- 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
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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, 27 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 November 2001.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 17 November 2001
27 m awayRef 2001400D03713
Serious
Car crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 25 December 2019
28 m awayRef 2019400919883
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A507 in Bedford, 2 May 1999
36 m awayRef 199940D127499
Slight
Mini Paceman crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 20 July 2025
47 m awayRef 2025401634331
Slight
Car crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 12 December 1989
49 m awayRef 19894000D2328
Serious
Iveco crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 1 January 2017
51 m awayRef 2017400142209
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Road works
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 22, motorcyclist (50cc 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 2014404DA1063 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.