A5065 crash in Luton on 6 December 2006 at 12:15 involving a Honda Jazz
A Honda Jazz and a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A5065 in Luton at 12:15 on Wednesday 6 December 2006. The 27-year-old male rider of the Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2006
- Wednesday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Jazz and Suzuki SV 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8879, longitude -0.46264, in the LU4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Challney, Luton, LU4 8QW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200640C032120
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5065
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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 with high winds
- 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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 2009.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A5065 in Luton, 19 August 2009
10 m awayRef 2009400C02509
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A5065 in Luton, 11 April 2001
20 m awayRef 2001400C01289
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A5065 in Luton, 15 December 2003
22 m awayRef 2003400C00099
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A5065 in Luton, 30 October 2006
30 m awayRef 200640C027610
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 5 April 1991
40 m awayRef 19914000C0377
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A5065 in Luton, 14 February 2014
43 m awayRef 2014404CA0159
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki SV 650)
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 200640C032120 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.