Serious unclassified road crash in Luton LU1 on 29 June 2017 at 18:15 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Luton at 18:15 on Thursday 29 June 2017. A 40-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Jun 2017
- Thursday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87457, longitude -0.41677, in the LU1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Luton, LU1 2AR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017400199541
- 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
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 2008.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 25 July 2008
2 m awayRef 2008400C02253
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 28 September 2014
4 m awayRef 2014404CA1129
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 12 December 2010
11 m awayRef 2010400C03631
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 24 June 2003
12 m awayRef 2003400C01802
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 14 December 2018
13 m awayRef 2018400830609
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 3 February 2016
23 m awayRef 2016406CA0145
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
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
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,240 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
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 2017400199541 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.