Unclassified road crash in Luton LU3 on 24 December 2006 at 13:50 involving a Renault 21
A car and a Renault 21 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 13:50 on Sunday 24 December 2006. The 30-year-old male driver of the Renault 21 and a 10-year-old male passenger in the Renault 21 were 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
- 24 Dec 2006
- Sunday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Renault 21
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89938, longitude -0.43971, 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
- 200640C000360
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 2003.
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58 m awayRef 19844000C0518
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Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 26 February 1988
58 m awayRef 19884000C0377
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 26 June 1987
58 m awayRef 19874000C0865
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 22 May 1988
58 m awayRef 19884000C0658
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Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 27 August 1998
86 m awayRef 19984000C1341
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Renault 21
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault 21)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault 21)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200640C000360 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 2006.