Unclassified road crash in Luton LU4 on 22 June 2017 at 09:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A car and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 09:00 on Thursday 22 June 2017. The female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jun 2017
- Thursday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90064, longitude -0.50038, in the LU4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lewsey, Luton, LU4 0UL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017400199446
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 2017.
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 22 June 2017
31 m awayRef 2017400199684
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 23 December 1985
31 m awayRef 19854000C1944
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 18 December 1995
31 m awayRef 19954000C2181
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 19 May 1981
31 m awayRef 19814000C0746
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 28 September 1980
75 m awayRef 19804000C1422
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 7 April 1996
75 m awayRef 19964000C0521
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 2017400199446 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 2017.