Unclassified road crash in Central Bedfordshire SG18 on 26 October 2017 at 17:45 involving an Alfa Romeo 147
An Alfa Romeo 147 crashed on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire at 17:45 on Thursday 26 October 2017. The 71-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2017
- Thursday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Alfa Romeo 147
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04616, longitude -0.234, in the SG18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017400238519
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 January 1994.
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Fatal
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Alfa Romeo 147
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alfa Romeo 147)
- 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 2017400238519 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.