Unclassified road crash in Luton LU3 on 23 December 2000 at 16:45 involving a Volvo 460
A Volvo 460 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Luton at 16:45 on Saturday 23 December 2000. A 40-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark on an oily road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2000
- Saturday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo 460
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90637, longitude -0.45852, 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
- 2000400C00041
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Road surface
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 2002.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 460
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,721 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo 460)
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 2000400C00041 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 2000.