Unclassified road crash in Luton LU3 on 25 March 2012 at 20:13 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 20:13 on Sunday 25 March 2012. The 29-year-old female driver of the Toyota Yaris was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Mar 2012
- Sunday, 20:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90248, longitude -0.43597, in the LU3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Saints, Luton, LU3 2LT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012400CA0348
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 1999.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 23 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199940C020699
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 2 March 2000
At the same spotRef 2000400C00734
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 13 June 2024
1 m awayRef 2024401459323
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 17 November 2017
7 m awayRef 2017400242429
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 22 May 2018
8 m awayRef 2018400298450
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 24 July 2016
9 m awayRef 2016400096594
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
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 2012400CA0348 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.