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Unclassified road crash in Luton LU4 on 23 July 2005 at 15:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Luton at 15:00 on Saturday 23 July 2005. A 38-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
23 Jul 2005
Saturday, 15:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89769, longitude -0.44777, in the LU4 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
200540C020420
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
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
5228

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

Enhanced collision data

How severity was recorded
Judged by the reporting police officer
Estimated chance it was serious
2%
Estimated chance it was slight
98%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2002.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Moving off
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Lane or location
    Footway (pavement)
    Position at junction
    Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Journey purpose
    Other or not known
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    35 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge

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 200540C020420 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.