Unclassified road crash in Bedford MK40 on 21 November 2023 at 16:34 involving a Ford C-Max
A Ford C-Max hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bedford at 16:34 on Tuesday 21 November 2023. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 2023
- Tuesday, 16:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford C-Max
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13833, longitude -0.45316, in the MK40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bedford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle & Newnham, Bedford, MK40 3TU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bedford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023401379441
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 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, 44 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2007.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 19 December 2007
44 m awayRef 2007400B04036
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 21 October 1988
44 m awayRef 19884000B0959
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 11 March 1990
44 m awayRef 19904000B0324
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 4 May 2001
53 m awayRef 2001400B01530
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 6 April 1984
89 m awayRef 19844000B0297
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 18 September 1984
101 m awayRef 19844000B0887
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford C-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford C-Max)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2023401379441 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.