Serious unclassified road crash in Luton LU3 on 17 December 2008 at 20:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Luton at 20:15 on Wednesday 17 December 2008. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Dec 2008
- Wednesday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90351, longitude -0.44626, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008400C03809
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 14 January 1982
22 m awayRef 19824000C0059
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 29 May 1979
22 m awayRef 19794000C0750
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 5 January 1994
22 m awayRef 19944000C0024
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 18 January 1982
22 m awayRef 19824000C0090
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 22 October 1982
22 m awayRef 19824000C1358
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 1 September 1979
22 m awayRef 19794000C1419
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
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 2008400C03809 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.