Unclassified road crash in Luton LU3 on 4 February 2018 at 08:30 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 08:30 on Sunday 4 February 2018. The 21-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa 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
- 4 Feb 2018
- Sunday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A4 and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.91441, longitude -0.43873, in the LU3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018400265448
- 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
- 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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1998.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 17 December 1998
13 m awayRef 1998400C06164
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 18 December 2007
21 m awayRef 2007400C04027
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 4 January 2025
25 m awayRef 2025401541661
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 27 November 2001
31 m awayRef 2001400C03859
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Luton, 3 September 1998
42 m awayRef 19984000C1323
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 26 July 1985
42 m awayRef 19854000C0998
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018400265448 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 2018.