Unclassified road crash in Central Bedfordshire MK43 on 15 February 2024 at 17:59 involving a Volkswagen Eos
A Volkswagen Eos and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire at 17:59 on Thursday 15 February 2024. The 45-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2024
- Thursday, 17:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Eos and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07834, longitude -0.59993, in the MK43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cranfield.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024401412371
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 24 October 2000
7 m awayRef 2000400D03275
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 31 May 2003
16 m awayRef 2003400D01555
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 7 September 2011
35 m awayRef 2011400DA0167
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 4 June 1999
51 m awayRef 199940D155299
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 3 January 1979
64 m awayRef 19794000D0049
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 5 December 1991
64 m awayRef 19914000D1825
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Eos
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 45, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2024401412371 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 2024.