Unclassified road crash in Luton LU3 on 24 April 2007 at 16:20 involving a BMW 3 Series
A car and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 16:20 on Tuesday 24 April 2007. The 33-year-old female driver of the car, the 36-year-old female driver of the BMW 3 Series and a 16-year-old female passenger in the BMW 3 Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 2007
- Tuesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90572, longitude -0.42932, in the LU3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Saints, Luton, LU3 2LT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007400C01339
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 2003.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 17 January 2003
10 m awayRef 2003400C00209
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 13 November 2000
10 m awayRef 2000400C03378
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 22 February 2017
30 m awayRef 2017400160546
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 26 February 2021
37 m awayRef 2021401027411
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 1 May 2012
45 m awayRef 2012400CA0452
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 7 March 1994
51 m awayRef 19944000C0384
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2007400C01339 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 2007.