A600 crash in Bedford on 3 February 2015 at 18:05 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A600 in Bedford at 18:05 on Tuesday 3 February 2015. The 43-year-old male driver of the taxi was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Feb 2015
- Tuesday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 106 and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13217, longitude -0.46875, in the MK42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bedford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greyfriars, Bedford, MK40 1AS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bedford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015405BA0116
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 600
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 600
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 2000.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 22 November 2000
4 m awayRef 2000400B03770
Serious
LML Star crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 25 December 2017
4 m awayRef 2017400255213
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A6 in Bedford, 11 March 2010
7 m awayRef 2010400B00740
Slight
BMW M3 crash on the A600 in Bedford, 31 March 2025
8 m awayRef 2025401596065
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5140 in Bedford, 18 November 1981
15 m awayRef 19814000B1380
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A6 in Bedford, 9 March 1994
15 m awayRef 19944000B0315
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)
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 2015405BA0116 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 2015.