Unclassified road crash in Central Bedfordshire LU1 on 24 October 2018 at 12:25 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire at 12:25 on Wednesday 24 October 2018. The 17-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 2018
- Wednesday, 12:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85033, longitude -0.37395, in the LU1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018400340849
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2018.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B653 in Central Bedfordshire, 16 December 2018
2 m awayRef 2018400811034
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B653 in Central Bedfordshire, 10 October 2022
3 m awayRef 2022401234701
Slight
Toyota C-HR crash on the B653 in Central Bedfordshire, 5 April 2025
3 m awayRef 2025401645247
Slight
Toyota Proace crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 2 October 2025
4 m awayRef 2025401663893
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on the B653 in Central Bedfordshire, 15 November 2018
5 m awayRef 2018400346409
Slight
Triumph TT600 crash on the B653 in Central Bedfordshire, 22 December 2005
6 m awayRef 200540D004070
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018400340849 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.