Unclassified road crash in Luton LU3 on 21 July 2003 at 14:00 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Luton at 14:00 on Monday 21 July 2003. A 28-year-old male 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
- 21 Jul 2003
- Monday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89455, longitude -0.4348, in the LU3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Beech Hill, Luton, LU4 8LX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003400C02096
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 October 2010.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 5 October 2010
10 m awayRef 2010400C02927
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 10 May 1992
40 m awayRef 19924000C0496
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 21 October 1997
40 m awayRef 19974000C1700
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 27 August 1984
40 m awayRef 19844000C1202
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 16 November 1989
40 m awayRef 19894000C1427
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 23 December 1993
40 m awayRef 19934000C2170
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,762 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 2003400C02096 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.