B655 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 17 November 2015 at 09:06 involving a van
A van crashed on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire at 09:06 on Tuesday 17 November 2015. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 2015
- Tuesday, 09:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.95952, longitude -0.36832, in the SG5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015405DA0962
- 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
- 40 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 2003.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 30 January 2003
3 m awayRef 2003400D00390
Serious
Fiat Panda crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 13 November 2016
5 m awayRef 2016400131197
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 24 May 2014
5 m awayRef 2014404DA0852
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 2 November 2005
7 m awayRef 200540D030240
Slight
LDV 400 Series crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 18 June 2002
13 m awayRef 2002400D02031
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 12 September 2002
13 m awayRef 2002400D02888
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 2015405DA0962 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.