Serious unclassified road crash in Luton LU3 on 23 November 2011 at 09:45 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 09:45 on Wednesday 23 November 2011. The 39-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Nov 2011
- Wednesday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.91752, longitude -0.44461, in the LU3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011400CA0563
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 16 March 2012
10 m awayRef 2012400CA0297
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 15 December 2010
45 m awayRef 2010400C03703
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 25 January 2001
85 m awayRef 2001400C00458
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 18 April 1981
85 m awayRef 19814000C0554
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 7 September 1982
106 m awayRef 19824000C1148
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 25 June 1987
182 m awayRef 19874000C0871
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 39, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2011400CA0563 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.