Unclassified road crash in Luton LU4 on 5 March 2012 at 17:17 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 17:17 on Monday 5 March 2012. The 48-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was 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
- 5 Mar 2012
- Monday, 17:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89837, longitude -0.47899, in the LU4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poets, Luton, LU4 0LJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012400CA0251
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 1999.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 26 October 1999
At the same spotRef 199940C293499
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 21 October 2010
At the same spotRef 2010400C03090
Slight
Skoda Felicia crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 15 January 2004
At the same spotRef 2004400C00266
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 19 August 2009
At the same spotRef 2009400C02344
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 14 December 2009
At the same spotRef 2009400C03619
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 17 September 2008
At the same spotRef 2008400C02817
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 2012400CA0251 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 2012.