A5228 crash in Luton on 13 March 2021 at 03:47 involving a BMW X5
A BMW X5 and a Nissan NV300 van were involved in a crash on the A5228 in Luton at 03:47 on Saturday 13 March 2021. The 33-year-old male driver of the Nissan NV300 van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Mar 2021
- Saturday, 03:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW X5 and Nissan NV300
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8936, longitude -0.40999, in the LU2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the High Town, Luton, LU2 7GS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021401029182
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5228
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 10 August 2018.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A5228 in Luton, 10 August 2018
1 m awayRef 2018400322841
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A5228 in Luton, 10 July 2020
1 m awayRef 2020400964475
Slight
Honda NSC crash on the A5228 in Luton, 3 May 2022
1 m awayRef 2022401178514
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A5228 in Luton, 21 December 2015
2 m awayRef 2015405CA1525
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 7 July 2001
5 m awayRef 2001400C02216
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5228 in Luton, 5 March 2016
9 m awayRef 2016406CA0249
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan NV300
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan NV300)
- 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 2021401029182 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 2021.