Unclassified road crash in Central Bedfordshire MK45 on 16 December 2019 at 16:51 involving a Ford Focus
A bicycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire at 16:51 on Monday 16 December 2019. The 47-year-old male cyclist was 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
- 16 Dec 2019
- Monday, 16:51
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03102, longitude -0.47136, in the MK45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maulden.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019400919873
- 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 21 April 2006
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Slight
Optare crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 8 March 2017
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Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 23 September 2010
9 m awayRef 2010400D02850
Serious
Nissan E24 crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 25 October 1999
23 m awayRef 199940D300099
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 11 December 2003
26 m awayRef 2003400D03819
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 6 June 2019
30 m awayRef 2019400846631
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,989 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 47, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019400919873 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.