Unclassified road crash in Bedford MK41 on 19 May 2025 at 15:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bedford at 15:20 on Monday 19 May 2025. A 27-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 May 2025
- Monday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13871, longitude -0.44358, in the MK41 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
- 2025401592679
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 15 May 2018
9 m awayRef 2018400293831
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A5140 in Bedford, 12 May 2014
18 m awayRef 2014404BA0407
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5140 in Bedford, 20 October 2016
21 m awayRef 2016400123487
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5140 in Bedford, 26 October 2011
25 m awayRef 2011400BA0314
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5140 in Bedford, 27 April 2001
25 m awayRef 2001400B01450
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5140 in Bedford, 1 October 2021
26 m awayRef 2021401096001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 100 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 2025401592679 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 2025.