Unclassified road crash in Luton LU1 on 9 September 2005 at 22:07 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Luton at 22:07 on Friday 9 September 2005. A 47-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Sep 2005
- Friday, 22:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87663, longitude -0.41929, in the LU1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Luton, LU1 2AR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200540C024690
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
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%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 47, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 200540C024690 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.