B579 crash in Luton on 22 January 2015 at 08:45 involving a Honda Jazz
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 2015
- Thursday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Jazz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90009, longitude -0.44817, in the LU3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015405CA0072
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 2022.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B579 in Luton, 31 March 2022
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B579 in Luton, 27 September 2017
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Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B579 in Luton, 5 January 2022
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Slight
Volkswagen Touareg crash on the B579 in Luton, 11 January 2009
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Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B579 in Luton, 28 November 2006
8 m awayRef 200640C030760
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the B579 in Luton, 3 May 2021
8 m awayRef 2021401042263
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 43, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda Jazz)
- 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 2015405CA0072 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 2015.