Unclassified road crash in Luton LU3 on 27 August 1998 at 21:30 involving a Nissan Bluebird
A Nissan Bluebird hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Luton at 21:30 on Thursday 27 August 1998. A 19-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Aug 1998
- Thursday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Bluebird
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89879, longitude -0.43903, in the LU3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984000C1341
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 2003.
Slight
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Slight
Mini Cooper crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 9 October 2020
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Slight
Renault 21 crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 24 December 2006
86 m awayRef 200640C000360
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 9 October 2001
86 m awayRef 2001400C03291
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 4 April 2014
90 m awayRef 2014404CA0360
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 19984000C1341 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 1998.