Unclassified road crash in Luton LU4 on 23 November 2022 at 17:30 involving a Toyota Prius
A Toyota Prius hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Luton at 17:30 on Wednesday 23 November 2022. The 25-year-old female driver and a 56-year-old male pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Nov 2022
- Wednesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Prius
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90293, longitude -0.45551, in the LU4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leagrave, Luton, LU4 9BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022401248255
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2011.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 28 November 2011
6 m awayRef 2011400CA0598
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 20 August 1999
7 m awayRef 199940C219799
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 9 March 2014
9 m awayRef 2014404CA0234
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 20 October 2016
11 m awayRef 2016400123398
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 15 February 2017
12 m awayRef 2017400159411
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 26 June 2017
13 m awayRef 2017400200412
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Prius)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 56, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Prius)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2022401248255 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 2022.