Unclassified road crash in Luton LU3 on 23 December 2013 at 23:40 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 23:40 on Monday 23 December 2013. The 40-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2013
- Monday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90351, longitude -0.43885, 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
- 2013400CA1121
- 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
- Raining with 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 January 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 31 January 2003
At the same spotRef 2003400C00318
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 5 August 2006
At the same spotRef 200640C018900
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 26 January 2005
At the same spotRef 200540C003380
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 27 April 2011
At the same spotRef 2011400C01482
Slight
Jaguar XK Series crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 26 February 2007
At the same spotRef 2007400C00686
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 28 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200640C012920
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2013400CA1121 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.