B4540 crash in Luton on 11 July 2003 at 17:15 involving a bicycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jul 2003
- Friday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8664, longitude -0.43432, in the LU1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Farley, Luton, LU1 5PF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003400C01987
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4540
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- C
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1998.
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A1081 in Luton, 3 December 1998
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Slight
Ford KA crash on the B4540 in Luton, 22 February 2007
At the same spotRef 2007400C00627
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 15 November 1999
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Serious
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4540 in Luton, 4 October 2019
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4540 in Luton, 30 January 2024
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2003400C01987 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 2003.