Unclassified road crash in Luton LU1 on 7 February 2020 at 10:20 involving a Volkswagen T-Roc
A Volkswagen T-Roc hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Luton at 10:20 on Friday 7 February 2020. A 34-year-old female 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
- 7 Feb 2020
- Friday, 10:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen T-Roc
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8802, longitude -0.42266, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020400927892
- 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
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 24 February 2016.
Slight
Car crash on the A505 in Luton, 24 February 2016
1 m awayRef 2016406CA0350
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 18 March 2019
6 m awayRef 2019400826070
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 2 August 2019
8 m awayRef 2019400866741
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A505 in Luton, 12 July 1999
14 m awayRef 199940C185699
Slight
Nissan E24 crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 4 August 2003
21 m awayRef 2003400C02256
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A505 in Luton, 30 March 2014
24 m awayRef 2014404CA0348
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen T-Roc
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen T-Roc)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2020400927892 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 2020.