Serious unclassified road crash in Bedford MK41 on 20 December 2017 at 07:25 involving a Ford Transit Custom van
A Ford Transit Custom van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bedford at 07:25 on Wednesday 20 December 2017. A 60-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Dec 2017
- Wednesday, 07:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.16006, longitude -0.45959, in the MK41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bedford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brickhill, Bedford, MK41 7BX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bedford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017400256510
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 2009.
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 30 August 2009
6 m awayRef 2009400B02462
Serious
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 4 March 2010
6 m awayRef 2010400B00688
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 20 June 2000
6 m awayRef 2000400B01898
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 28 April 2001
6 m awayRef 2001400B01503
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 19 August 2002
16 m awayRef 2002400B02638
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 12 February 2011
27 m awayRef 2011400B00505
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Custom)
- Pedestrian location
- On refuge, central island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2017400256510 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.