B579 crash in Luton on 18 October 2012 at 17:04 involving a Vauxhall Agila
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 2012
- Thursday, 17:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Agila
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9126, longitude -0.48098, in the LU4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leagrave, Luton, LU4 9EJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012400CA1090
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 579
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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 9 August 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B579 in Luton, 9 August 2004
At the same spotRef 2004400C02403
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A5141 in Bedford, 17 September 1996
28 m awayRef 19964000B1064
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B579 in Central Bedfordshire, 29 April 1981
28 m awayRef 19814000D0889
Slight
Car crash on the B579 in Central Bedfordshire, 29 July 1981
28 m awayRef 19814000D1740
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B579 in Luton, 8 September 1989
28 m awayRef 19894000C1085
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bedford, 19 August 1980
28 m awayRef 19804000B1035
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Agila
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Agila)
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 2012400CA1090 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.