Unclassified road crash in Luton LU2 on 5 March 2005 at 21:07 involving a Vauxhall Astra
Two Vauxhall Astras, a Volkswagen Golf and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 21:07 on Saturday 5 March 2005. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 2005
- Saturday, 21:07
- Vehicles
- 4
- Vauxhall Astra and 3 others
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88954, longitude -0.3969, in the LU2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Round Green, Luton, LU2 0PW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200540C006220
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Crossroads
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
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Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 4: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200540C006220 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 2005.