A428 crash in Bedford on 19 December 2019 at 17:55 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a car were involved in a crash on the A428 in Bedford at 17:55 on Thursday 19 December 2019. The 51-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus and the 53-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2019
- Thursday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.16199, longitude -0.62635, in the MK43 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bedford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019400916182
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 428
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 2013.
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the A428 in Bedford, 26 June 2013
7 m awayRef 2013400BA0452
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A428 in Bedford, 26 December 2023
14 m awayRef 2023401396251
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 31 December 2016
14 m awayRef 2016400146575
Slight
Car crash on the A428 in Bedford, 25 November 1985
45 m awayRef 19854000B1274
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Bedford, 13 March 1995
45 m awayRef 19954000B0352
Fatal
Car crash on the A428 in Bedford, 27 June 1983
45 m awayRef 19834000B0675
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- 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
- 53 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 2019400916182 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 2019.