A505 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 15 February 2013 at 08:30 involving a Jaguar X Type
A Jaguar X Type hit a pedestrian on the A505 in Central Bedfordshire at 08:30 on Friday 15 February 2013. A 10-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2013
- Friday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Jaguar X Type
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89075, longitude -0.48797, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013400DA0088
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 505
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A505 in Central Bedfordshire, 28 January 2012
10 m awayRef 2012400DA0086
Slight
Car crash on the A505 in Central Bedfordshire, 7 October 1999
10 m awayRef 199940D279699
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A505 in Central Bedfordshire, 30 May 2013
14 m awayRef 2013400DA0365
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A505 in Central Bedfordshire, 22 March 2019
16 m awayRef 2019400830664
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A505 in Central Bedfordshire, 1 February 1999
20 m awayRef 199940D028399
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A505 in Central Bedfordshire, 24 February 2024
24 m awayRef 2024401414650
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar X Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Jaguar X Type)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2013400DA0088 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Central Bedfordshire road accident statistics for 2013.