Serious unclassified road crash in Luton LU3 on 21 November 2011 at 18:02 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Luton at 18:02 on Monday 21 November 2011. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Nov 2011
- Monday, 18:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9022, longitude -0.42872, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011400CA0556
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2008.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 8 December 2008
At the same spotRef 2008400C03678
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 7 February 2011
10 m awayRef 2011400C00393
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 12 October 2013
10 m awayRef 2013400CA0882
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 19 May 2002
10 m awayRef 2002400C01664
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 28 December 2013
10 m awayRef 2013400CA1108
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 26 August 2011
10 m awayRef 2011400CA0192
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2011400CA0556 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.