B5120 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 1 March 2023 at 14:18 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris crashed on the B5120 in Central Bedfordshire at 14:18 on Wednesday 1 March 2023. The 44-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 2023
- Wednesday, 14:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.93514, longitude -0.53637, in the LU5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023401288485
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5120
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 18 April 2006
4 m awayRef 200640D009690
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 17 December 2003
6 m awayRef 2003400D03859
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 15 January 1999
14 m awayRef 199940D013999
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 4 April 1999
16 m awayRef 199940D087499
Serious
Renault Espace crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 9 October 2005
19 m awayRef 200540D026660
Serious
Bedford crash on the A5120 in Central Bedfordshire, 11 March 1994
21 m awayRef 19944000D0255
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- 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 2023401288485 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 2023.