A5228 crash in Luton on 7 June 2015 at 10:50 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jun 2015
- Sunday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89305, longitude -0.45249, in the LU4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Challney, Luton, LU4 8QW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015405CA0644
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5228
- Road type
- Single 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 September 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 14 September 2017
11 m awayRef 2017400234359
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5228 in Luton, 19 July 2002
14 m awayRef 2002400C02297
Slight
Yamaha FZ6 crash on the A5228 in Luton, 3 February 2014
20 m awayRef 2014404CA0106
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 26 December 2007
23 m awayRef 2007400C00010
Serious
Nissan Laurel crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 8 January 1999
23 m awayRef 199940C005399
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A5228 in Luton, 14 December 2013
28 m awayRef 2013400CA1071
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
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 2015405CA0644 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.