B489 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 15 December 2025 at 07:00 involving a Mercedes Gla Class
A Mercedes Gla Class and a car were involved in a crash on the B489 in Central Bedfordshire at 07:00 on Monday 15 December 2025. The 23-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Monday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Gla Class and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88198, longitude -0.53756, in the LU6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dunstable. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunstable West, Central Bedfordshire, LU6 3JZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025401685442
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 489
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4541
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B489 in Central Bedfordshire, 17 February 2007
2 m awayRef 2007400D00596
Slight
Car crash on the B489 in Central Bedfordshire, 5 November 2017
5 m awayRef 2017400241762
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on the B489 in Central Bedfordshire, 12 September 2023
6 m awayRef 2023401354305
Slight
Honda VFR800 crash on the B489 in Central Bedfordshire, 20 October 2018
7 m awayRef 2018400343870
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B489 in Central Bedfordshire, 9 December 2025
7 m awayRef 2025401683662
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B489 in Central Bedfordshire, 21 February 2001
8 m awayRef 2001400D00763
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Gla Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025401685442 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 2025.