Unclassified road crash in Luton LU4 on 15 November 2017 at 15:57 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Luton at 15:57 on Wednesday 15 November 2017. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Nov 2017
- Wednesday, 15:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89588, longitude -0.4635, in the LU4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Challney, Luton, LU4 8QW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017400248435
- 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
- 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, 39 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 2016.
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 19 March 2016
39 m awayRef 2016406CA0340
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 18 November 1999
44 m awayRef 199940C323599
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 16 December 2014
44 m awayRef 2014404CA1462
Slight
Vauxhall Viva crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 14 February 1991
45 m awayRef 19914000C0192
Slight
BMW X5 crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 24 November 2015
46 m awayRef 2015405CA1412
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 2 February 1995
89 m awayRef 19954000C0267
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2017400248435 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.