A1081 crash in Luton on 10 December 2013 at 05:22 involving a Vauxhall Zafira taxi
A Vauxhall Zafira taxi and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on the A1081 in Luton at 05:22 on Tuesday 10 December 2013. A 39-year-old female passenger in the Ford KA was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 2013
- Tuesday, 05:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86968, longitude -0.39717, in the LU1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Vauxhall, Luton, LU2 0SX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013400CA1053
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1081
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- Fog or mist
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 February 2011.
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A1081 in Central Bedfordshire, 9 February 2011
At the same spotRef 2011400C00390
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1081 in Central Bedfordshire, 23 May 2012
At the same spotRef 2012400CA0716
Slight
Chrysler Voyager crash on the A1081 in Central Bedfordshire, 16 June 2011
At the same spotRef 2011400C01649
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A1081 in Central Bedfordshire, 4 October 2015
9 m awayRef 2015405CA1164
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1081 in Central Bedfordshire, 14 October 2012
10 m awayRef 2012400CA1067
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on the A1081 in Central Bedfordshire, 27 June 2015
10 m awayRef 2015405CA0876
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2013400CA1053 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 2013.