Serious unclassified road crash in Luton LU3 on 4 April 2018 at 11:30 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Luton at 11:30 on Wednesday 4 April 2018. A 44-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Apr 2018
- Wednesday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9, longitude -0.4349, in the LU3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Saints, Luton, LU3 2LT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018400285889
- 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
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 3 December 2014
18 m awayRef 2014404CA1411
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 2 February 2000
20 m awayRef 2000400C00397
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 25 February 2010
21 m awayRef 2010400C00626
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 29 April 2011
21 m awayRef 2011400C01172
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 20 August 2001
23 m awayRef 2001400C02720
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 9 April 2025
26 m awayRef 2025401576030
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2018400285889 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.