Unclassified road crash in Luton LU3 on 20 June 2015 at 10:10 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Luton at 10:10 on Saturday 20 June 2015. A 65-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jun 2015
- Saturday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9171, longitude -0.45487, in the LU3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Northwell, Luton, LU3 3NL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015405CA0661
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 35 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 July 1987.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 23 July 1987
35 m awayRef 19874000C1021
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 1 March 1983
35 m awayRef 19834000C0273
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 10 February 2016
53 m awayRef 2016406CA0180
Serious
Austin Mini crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 22 February 1990
68 m awayRef 19904000C0243
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 19 October 1989
68 m awayRef 19894000C1281
Fatal
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 7 December 2011
78 m awayRef 2011400CA0613
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2015405CA0661 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.