B531 crash in Bedford on 27 December 2016 at 14:22 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Honda SH125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B531 in Bedford at 14:22 on Tuesday 27 December 2016. The 34-year-old male rider of the Honda SH125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2016
- Tuesday, 14:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Honda SH125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12263, longitude -0.48655, in the MK42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kempston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kempston Central & East, Bedford, MK42 7NZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bedford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016400145666
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 531
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 2008.
Slight
Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox crash on the B531 in Bedford, 29 June 2008
1 m awayRef 2008400B01991
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 8 February 2000
1 m awayRef 2000400B00504
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the B531 in Bedford, 28 August 2004
1 m awayRef 2004400B02578
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B531 in Bedford, 16 August 2003
1 m awayRef 2003400B02308
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B531 in Bedford, 17 November 2018
2 m awayRef 2018400802360
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B531 in Bedford, 18 June 2022
3 m awayRef 2022401205382
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda SH125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 34, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda SH125)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2016400145666 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bedford road accident statistics for 2016.