Unclassified road crash in Luton LU2 on 16 December 2014 at 17:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Luton at 17:25 on Tuesday 16 December 2014. A 43-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88111, longitude -0.40067, in the LU2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Vauxhall, Luton, LU2 0SX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014404CA1502
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 January 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 29 January 2014
4 m awayRef 2014404CA0092
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 14 September 2007
6 m awayRef 2007400C02839
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 13 August 2017
11 m awayRef 2017400215366
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 12 November 2011
13 m awayRef 2011400CA0514
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 12 January 1983
19 m awayRef 19834000C0040
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 25 October 1998
19 m awayRef 19984000C1543
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 43, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2014404CA1502 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 2014.