Unclassified road crash in Central Bedfordshire SG16 on 10 December 2015 at 19:40 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire at 19:40 on Thursday 10 December 2015. The 38-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02757, longitude -0.28611, in the SG16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Henlow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clifton, Henlow & Langford, Central Bedfordshire, SG16 6GT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015405DA1080
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 659
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%
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The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 May 2021.
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Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 10 July 2000
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 38, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2015405DA1080 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.