A6 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 12 December 2016 at 18:01 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire at 18:01 on Monday 12 December 2016. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2016
- Monday, 18:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9665, longitude -0.43361, in the MK45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016400140649
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 46 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 November 2007
46 m awayRef 2007400D04006
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 10 November 2010
126 m awayRef 2010400D03360
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 18 April 1992
144 m awayRef 19924000D0552
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 27 August 2019
152 m awayRef 2019400874177
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 7 January 1998
156 m awayRef 19984000D0035
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 28 October 2005
156 m awayRef 200540D029870
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
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 2016400140649 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 2016.