A505 crash in Luton on 28 November 2016 at 18:29 involving a BMW 4 Series
A BMW 4 Series and a car were involved in a crash on the A505 in Luton at 18:29 on Monday 28 November 2016. The 35-year-old male driver of the BMW 4 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 2016
- Monday, 18:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 4 Series and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89276, longitude -0.47543, in the LU4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poets, Luton, LU4 0LJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016400134135
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 505
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Signum crash on the A505 in Luton, 25 July 2012
3 m awayRef 2012400CA0805
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A505 in Luton, 18 December 2007
3 m awayRef 2007400C04001
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A505 in Central Bedfordshire, 28 August 2000
3 m awayRef 2000401D00382
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A505 in Luton, 23 June 2018
7 m awayRef 2018400308093
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A505 in Luton, 5 May 2020
8 m awayRef 2020400950993
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A505 in Luton, 29 November 2002
8 m awayRef 2002400C03951
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 4 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 4 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2016400134135 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.