A6001 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 6 August 2020 at 13:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire at 13:40 on Thursday 6 August 2020. A 62-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Aug 2020
- Thursday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08506, longitude -0.25341, in the SG18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Biggleswade. It is one of the crashes that make up the Biggleswade East, Central Bedfordshire, SG18 0NH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020400973791
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6001
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 January 2004.
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 29 January 2004
5 m awayRef 2004400B00448
Slight
Car crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 1 October 2008
10 m awayRef 2008400B02935
Serious
Car crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 7 July 2005
10 m awayRef 200540B018840
Slight
Van crash on the B1040 in Central Bedfordshire, 6 November 2006
17 m awayRef 200640B028030
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B1040 in Central Bedfordshire, 14 April 2015
21 m awayRef 2015405BA0324
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 8 May 2016
26 m awayRef 2016400067900
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 62, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2020400973791 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 2020.