Unclassified road crash in Luton LU4 on 8 May 2016 at 23:25 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 23:25 on Sunday 8 May 2016. The 36-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 2016
- Sunday, 23:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89467, longitude -0.45123, in the LU4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Beech Hill, Luton, LU4 8LX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016400067416
- 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
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 December 2012.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 17 December 2012
11 m awayRef 2012400CA1287
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 28 September 2005
11 m awayRef 200540C026170
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 24 November 2004
29 m awayRef 2004400C03529
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 10 August 2004
39 m awayRef 2004400C02418
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 20 December 1987
42 m awayRef 19874000C1852
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 16 September 1998
42 m awayRef 19984000C1361
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016400067416 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 2016.