Unclassified road crash in Luton LU3 on 30 December 2015 at 15:18 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna, a car and a Toyota RAV4 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 15:18 on Wednesday 30 December 2015. The 33-year-old female driver of the car and a 19-year-old male passenger in the Toyota RAV4 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2015
- Wednesday, 15:18
- Vehicles
- 3
- Renault Laguna and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90612, longitude -0.42803, in the LU3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barnfield, Luton, LU2 7BP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015405CA1570
- 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
- 20 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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%
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 3: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Toyota RAV4)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2015405CA1570 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.