Unclassified road crash in Bedford MK40 on 3 November 2023 at 19:15 involving a Fiat Doblo van
A Fiat Doblo van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bedford at 19:15 on Friday 3 November 2023. An 18-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 2023
- Friday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Doblo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13216, longitude -0.48417, in the MK40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bedford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Queens Park, Bedford, MK40 4LF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bedford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023401371256
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 2005.
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 8 April 2011
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Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 17 August 2007
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Doblo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Doblo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2023401371256 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 2023.