B655 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 8 April 2015 at 22:12 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Mini One were involved in a crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire at 22:12 on Wednesday 8 April 2015. The 18-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 2015
- Wednesday, 22:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Mini One
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9706, longitude -0.42738, in the MK45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barton-le-Clay. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barton-le-Clay & Silsoe, Central Bedfordshire, MK45 4LU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015405DA0290
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 655
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 February 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 3 February 2001
6 m awayRef 2001400D00611
Serious
Car crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 14 May 1983
108 m awayRef 19834000D0804
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 17 June 1990
108 m awayRef 19904000D1080
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 26 August 1981
119 m awayRef 19814000D1776
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 28 July 1979
126 m awayRef 19794000D1578
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 9 January 1981
126 m awayRef 19814000D0041
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Mini One
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2015405DA0290 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 2015.