Unclassified road crash in Luton on 17 December 1986 at 16:00 involving a car

A car and a minibus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 16:00 on Wednesday 17 December 1986. A 17-year-old male pedestrian hit by the car was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 17 Dec 1986; Wednesday, 16:00
Vehicles: 2; Car and minibus
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19864000C2011
Council area: Luton
Police force: Bedfordshire

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

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: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
Travelling from
North East
Travelling to
South West
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
41 years
Vehicle 2: Minibus
Minibus or motor caravan
Manoeuvre
Parked
Travelling from
Parked
Travelling to
Parked
First point of impact
Did not impact
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
21 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 19864000C2011 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Luton road accident statistics for 1986.