Unclassified road crash in Luton LU1 on 27 October 1999 at 13:28 involving an Iveco-Ford bus
A car and an Iveco-Ford bus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 13:28 on Wednesday 27 October 1999. The 35-year-old male driver of the Iveco-Ford bus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Oct 1999
- Wednesday, 13:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Iveco-Ford
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88066, longitude -0.41145, in the LU1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199940C299799
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Iveco-Ford
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Iveco-Ford)
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 199940C299799 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 1999.