B655 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 12 October 2019 at 07:23 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire at 07:23 on Saturday 12 October 2019. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2019
- Saturday, 07:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.95955, longitude -0.36771, 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
- 2019400890115
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 2021.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 18 July 2021
4 m awayRef 2021401078295
Serious
Honda VFR800F crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 28 October 2002
7 m awayRef 2002400D03476
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 2 November 2002
9 m awayRef 2002400D03587
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 16 January 2002
14 m awayRef 2002400D00292
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 11 November 2001
18 m awayRef 2001400D03822
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 24 November 2018
20 m awayRef 2018400803657
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2019400890115 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 2019.