Serious unclassified road crash in Central Bedfordshire LU1 on 11 July 2018 at 11:13 involving a Ford Mondeo
A car and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire at 11:13 on Wednesday 11 July 2018. The 29-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Jul 2018
- Wednesday, 11:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85505, longitude -0.37799, in the LU1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018400317076
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2008.
Slight
Hyundai Trajet crash on the B653 in Central Bedfordshire, 11 June 2008
14 m awayRef 2008400D01825
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the B653 in Central Bedfordshire, 12 December 2013
19 m awayRef 2013400CA1062
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the B653 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 May 2024
22 m awayRef 2024401449232
Slight
Van crash on the B653 in Central Bedfordshire, 8 December 1985
28 m awayRef 19854000C1820
Slight
Car crash on the A6129 in Luton, 29 November 1979
28 m awayRef 19794000C1762
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the B653 in Luton, 22 August 1990
28 m awayRef 19904000C1085
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2018400317076 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 2018.