A6 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 12 October 2021 at 13:41 involving a Toyota Auris
A Toyota Auris crashed on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire at 13:41 on Tuesday 12 October 2021. The 75-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2021
- Tuesday, 13:41
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Auris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.99024, longitude -0.425, in the MK45 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westoning, Flitton & Greenfield, Central Bedfordshire, MK45 4QR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021401100562
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- 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, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 February 2003.
Serious
Rover 800 Series crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 25 February 2003
13 m awayRef 2003400D00581
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 4 June 1992
44 m awayRef 19924000D0801
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 30 April 1981
58 m awayRef 19814000D0917
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 8 January 2000
61 m awayRef 2000400D00109
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 10 August 2001
68 m awayRef 2001400D02681
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire, 29 August 2015
74 m awayRef 2015405DA0745
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2021401100562 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 2021.