Unclassified road crash in Luton LU1 on 20 January 2000 at 17:22 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A car and a Vauxhall Nova were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 17:22 on Thursday 20 January 2000. An 11-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Nova was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2000
- Thursday, 17:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87414, longitude -0.4018, 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
- 2000400C00288
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
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The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 2014.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Nova)
- 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 2000400C00288 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.