C road crash in Central Bedfordshire MK43 on 24 October 2015 at 18:44 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on a C road in Central Bedfordshire at 18:44 on Saturday 24 October 2015. The 45-year-old female driver and a 56-year-old male passenger were 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
- 24 Oct 2015
- Saturday, 18:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.06248, longitude -0.54889, in the MK43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Marston Moretaine. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cranfield & Marston Moretaine, Central Bedfordshire, MK43 0JT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015405DA0905
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- C
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 20 July 2000
21 m awayRef 2000400D02175
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 22 July 2007
48 m awayRef 2007400D02543
Serious
Lorry crash on the A421 in Central Bedfordshire, 13 March 1987
54 m awayRef 19874000D0404
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 2 October 1997
54 m awayRef 19974000E0875
Serious
Van crash on the A421 in Central Bedfordshire, 13 December 1987
54 m awayRef 19874000D2328
Slight
Car crash on the A5140 in Central Bedfordshire, 23 October 1980
54 m awayRef 19804000D2223
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2015405DA0905 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.