A5228 crash in Luton on 21 June 2016 at 17:49 involving a Volkswagen Golf
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 2016
- Tuesday, 17:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89506, longitude -0.4393, in the LU3 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016400089439
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5228 in Luton, 26 August 2001
1 m awayRef 2001400C02804
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A5228 in Luton, 21 December 2015
3 m awayRef 2015405CA1566
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on the A5228 in Luton, 12 May 2021
6 m awayRef 2021401045938
Slight
Kawasaki EX500 crash on the B579 in Luton, 28 May 2008
9 m awayRef 2008400C01670
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A5228 in Luton, 22 March 2023
11 m awayRef 2023401290721
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 1 December 1999
13 m awayRef 199940C338299
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes E Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2016400089439 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.