A600 crash in Bedford on 13 November 2025 at 03:45 involving a Ford Kuga
An e-scooter and a Ford Kuga were involved in a crash on the A600 in Bedford at 03:45 on Thursday 13 November 2025. The 20-year-old male rider of the e-scooter 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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Nov 2025
- Thursday, 03:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- E-scooter and Ford Kuga
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12831, longitude -0.46203, in the MK42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bedford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kingsbrook, Bedford, MK42 0NX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bedford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025401674068
- Council area
- Bedford
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 600
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 2004.
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A600 in Bedford, 4 November 2004
4 m awayRef 2004400B03324
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A600 in Bedford, 28 June 2022
5 m awayRef 2022401196016
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A600 in Bedford, 26 July 2019
7 m awayRef 2019400867425
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A600 in Bedford, 20 July 2010
8 m awayRef 2010400B02260
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A600 in Bedford, 13 June 2007
8 m awayRef 2007400B02053
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A600 in Bedford, 20 May 2005
8 m awayRef 200540B014210
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: E-scooter
Personal powered transporter (e-scooter or similar)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- E-scooter
- Vehicle was an e-scooter
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Kuga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, on vehicle 1 (E-scooter)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
- E-scooter
- Casualty was using an e-scooter
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 2025401674068 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.