Unclassified road crash in Luton LU1 on 20 September 2009 at 09:32 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Kia Picanto were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 09:32 on Sunday 20 September 2009. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 2009
- Sunday, 09:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Kia Picanto
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87455, longitude -0.41849, in the LU1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Luton, LU1 2AR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009400C02668
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 11 September 2009.
Fatal
Scania crash on the B4540 in Luton, 11 September 2009
At the same spotRef 2009400C02521
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 9 January 2002
At the same spotRef 2002400C00147
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B4540 in Luton, 9 July 2007
At the same spotRef 2007400C02051
Slight
Van crash on the B4540 in Luton, 25 August 2005
At the same spotRef 200540C023690
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the B4540 in Luton, 6 February 2004
At the same spotRef 2004400C00464
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B4540 in Luton, 24 March 2022
3 m awayRef 2022401161210
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Kia Picanto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,086 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Picanto)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- 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 2009400C02668 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 2009.