B4541 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 6 March 2017 at 22:22 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 crashed on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire at 22:22 on Monday 6 March 2017. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Mar 2017
- Monday, 22:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 207
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86544, longitude -0.53633, in the LU6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017400166177
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4541
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 March 2021.
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 15 March 2021
10 m awayRef 2021401032889
Slight
Mini One crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 11 June 2017
16 m awayRef 2017400227070
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 3 March 2017
41 m awayRef 2017400166041
Fatal
DAF Trucks crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 17 February 2015
44 m awayRef 2015405DA0092
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 8 August 1989
54 m awayRef 19894000D1327
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4541 in Central Bedfordshire, 6 February 2015
55 m awayRef 2015405DA0098
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 207)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017400166177 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 2017.