A5141 crash in Bedford on 21 May 2021 at 16:45 involving a Volkswagen Scirocco
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 May 2021
- Friday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Scirocco and Toyota Auris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10841, longitude -0.47569, in the MK42 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wixams & Wilstead, Bedford, MK42 9XE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021401047718
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5141
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 6
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 2019.
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A5141 in Bedford, 18 January 2019
1 m awayRef 2019400816476
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A5141 in Bedford, 11 May 2014
2 m awayRef 2014404BA0413
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A6 in Bedford, 15 May 2017
2 m awayRef 2017400186226
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A5141 in Bedford, 9 June 2021
3 m awayRef 2021401058905
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5141 in Bedford, 2 October 2025
4 m awayRef 2025401652197
Slight
Renault Trucks crash on the A5141 in Bedford, 19 May 2016
5 m awayRef 2016400084901
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Scirocco
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Auris)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2021401047718 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 2021.