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B4540 crash in Luton on 23 December 1997 at 17:27 involving a taxi

A taxi and two cars were involved in a crash on the B4540 in Luton at 17:27 on Tuesday 23 December 1997. A 61-year-old female passenger in the taxi was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
23 Dec 1997
Tuesday, 17:27
Vehicles
3
Taxi and 2 others
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86897, longitude -0.42844, in the LU1 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Luton

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19974000C2075
Council area
Luton
Police force
Bedfordshire

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
4540
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Central refuge, no other controls

Environmental conditions

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 1979.

Vehicles involved (3)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    42 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    26 years

  • Vehicle 3: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to turn right
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    56 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 61, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

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 19974000C2075 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 1997.