A6001 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 24 December 2024 at 15:54 involving a Honda Jazz
A Honda Jazz and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire at 15:54 on Tuesday 24 December 2024. The 21-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 44-year-old female driver of the Honda Jazz were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2024
- Tuesday, 15:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Jazz and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.0918, longitude -0.26808, in the SG18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Biggleswade. It is one of the crashes that make up the Biggleswade West, Central Bedfordshire, SG18 0AH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024401539481
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6001
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- 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
- Raining, 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 2006.
Slight
LDV 200 Series crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 9 January 2006
2 m awayRef 200640B001510
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 11 February 2002
2 m awayRef 2002400B00555
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 December 2022
2 m awayRef 2022401265902
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 13 June 2017
4 m awayRef 2017400194960
Serious
Porsche Boxster crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 26 June 2015
4 m awayRef 2015405BA0679
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the A6001 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 January 2014
7 m awayRef 2014404BA0075
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,084 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Jazz)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2024401539481 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.