Unclassified road crash in Bedford MK41 on 13 November 2025 at 14:35 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bedford at 14:35 on Thursday 13 November 2025. A 77-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Nov 2025
- Thursday, 14:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13402, longitude -0.44487, 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
- 2025401674758
- 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
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 43 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 February 2004.
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 15 February 2004
43 m awayRef 2004400B00567
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 16 March 2009
49 m awayRef 2009400B00782
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Renault Twingo crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 27 July 2009
50 m awayRef 2009400B02152
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Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 15 February 2000
52 m awayRef 2000400B00582
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Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 29 April 2009
57 m awayRef 2009400B01228
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Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Bedford, 25 January 2005
57 m awayRef 200540B002560
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 77, hit by vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 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 2025401674758 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.