Unclassified road crash in Luton LU3 on 17 March 2005 at 11:10 involving a Piaggio NRG motorcycle
A Piaggio NRG motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Luton at 11:10 on Thursday 17 March 2005. The 17-year-old male rider 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
- 17 Mar 2005
- Thursday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Piaggio NRG
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.91953, longitude -0.46766, 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
- 200540C009160
- 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
- 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
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 10 October 1979
36 m awayRef 19794000C1478
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 23 November 1981
36 m awayRef 19814000C1822
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Rover 45 crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 5 September 2013
50 m awayRef 2013400CA0731
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 11 June 1980
73 m awayRef 19804000C0852
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 10 July 1984
73 m awayRef 19844000C1012
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 16 June 1995
73 m awayRef 19954000C1021
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio NRG
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio NRG)
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 200540C009160 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.