Unclassified road crash in Luton LU3 on 26 August 2011 at 18:47 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 18:47 on Friday 26 August 2011. The 31-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and a 22-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 2011
- Friday, 18:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9022, longitude -0.42857, in the LU3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barnfield, Luton, LU3 1SD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011400CA0192
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 7 February 2011
At the same spotRef 2011400C00393
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 21 January 2006
At the same spotRef 200640C002850
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 28 December 2013
At the same spotRef 2013400CA1108
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 28 September 2016
4 m awayRef 2016400116505
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 21 November 2011
10 m awayRef 2011400CA0556
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 10 January 2009
10 m awayRef 2009400C00129
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2011400CA0192 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 2011.