Unclassified road crash in Bedford MK42 on 31 August 2017 at 18:15 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Peugeot 307 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bedford at 18:15 on Thursday 31 August 2017. The 23-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 307 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Aug 2017
- Thursday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.11948, longitude -0.46401, in the MK42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bedford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cauldwell, Bedford, MK42 9UT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bedford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017400220076
- Council area
- Bedford
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5134
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 2017.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 17 January 2017
11 m awayRef 2017400150618
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the A5134 in Bedford, 24 October 2018
11 m awayRef 2018400340984
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5134 in Bedford, 16 January 2008
13 m awayRef 2008400B00371
Slight
Hyundai i20 crash on the A5134 in Bedford, 3 November 2009
17 m awayRef 2009400B03136
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5134 in Bedford, 1 October 2012
17 m awayRef 2012400BA0692
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5134 in Bedford, 16 February 2011
20 m awayRef 2011400B00663
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 307)
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 2017400220076 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 2017.