Unclassified road crash in Luton LU2 on 27 August 2012 at 11:05 involving a Renault Trafic van
A Renault Trafic van and a Vauxhall Movano were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 11:05 on Monday 27 August 2012. A 30-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Movano was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Aug 2012
- Monday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Trafic and Vauxhall Movano
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89109, longitude -0.39161, in the LU2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Round Green, Luton, LU2 0PW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012400CA0893
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 1989.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 31 December 1989
28 m awayRef 19894000C1663
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 23 October 1988
28 m awayRef 19884000C1458
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 3 June 1983
28 m awayRef 19834000C0759
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 3 July 1980
28 m awayRef 19804000C0964
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 8 May 2008
40 m awayRef 2008400C01530
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 30 March 2009
41 m awayRef 2009400C00892
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Movano
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Movano)
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 2012400CA0893 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.