Unclassified road crash in Luton LU2 on 5 September 2008 at 13:00 involving a Seat Alhambra
A Seat Alhambra and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 13:00 on Friday 5 September 2008. The 55-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2008
- Friday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Alhambra and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87353, longitude -0.38948, in the LU2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Vauxhall, Luton, LU2 0SX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008400C02677
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 505
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the A505 in Luton, 9 January 2004
14 m awayRef 2004400C00191
Slight
Volvo crash on the A505 in Luton, 9 January 2016
22 m awayRef 2016406CA0036
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A505 in Luton, 25 August 2005
22 m awayRef 200540C023710
Slight
Volvo crash on the A505 in Luton, 30 August 2005
22 m awayRef 200540C024030
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the A505 in Luton, 10 January 2016
24 m awayRef 2016406CA0038
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A1081 in Luton, 6 July 2021
35 m awayRef 2021401064627
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Alhambra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 55, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2008400C02677 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 2008.