B655 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 19 November 2017 at 19:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire at 19:30 on Sunday 19 November 2017. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 2017
- Sunday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.95853, longitude -0.37389, in the SG5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017400243337
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 655
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 14 June 1980
51 m awayRef 19804000D1123
Serious
Car crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 28 February 1984
51 m awayRef 19844000D0358
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 10 June 1993
51 m awayRef 19934000E0477
Serious
Hyundai i30 crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 9 May 2012
62 m awayRef 2012400DA0360
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 August 2023
80 m awayRef 2023401346488
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 10 December 2017
81 m awayRef 2017400253965
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 2017400243337 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.