C road crash in Luton LU5 on 8 August 2012 at 21:30 involving a Toyota Celica
A Toyota Celica and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Luton at 21:30 on Wednesday 8 August 2012. The 43-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Aug 2012
- Wednesday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Celica and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89143, longitude -0.48533, in the LU5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poets, Luton, LU4 0LJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012400CA0856
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 505
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2001.
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Mazda 626 crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 26 January 2001
At the same spotRef 2001400C00444
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Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 2 September 2008
At the same spotRef 2008400C02661
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Ford Escort crash on a C road in Luton, 4 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199940C308699
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Toyota MR2 crash on a C road in Luton, 20 December 2012
At the same spotRef 2012400CA1321
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Car crash on a C road in Luton, 22 October 2013
At the same spotRef 2013400DA0705
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 12 March 2008
At the same spotRef 2008400C00835
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Celica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 43, 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 2012400CA0856 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.