Serious unclassified road crash in Luton LU4 on 13 January 2023 at 10:27 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 10:27 on Friday 13 January 2023. The 24-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Jan 2023
- Friday, 10:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89478, longitude -0.45241, in the LU4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Challney, Luton, LU4 8QW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023401266809
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5228
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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 November 2014.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 27 November 2014
4 m awayRef 2014404CA1396
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 2 December 2003
5 m awayRef 2003400C03842
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5228 in Luton, 24 October 2009
5 m awayRef 2009400C03030
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A5228 in Luton, 7 November 2005
5 m awayRef 200540C030370
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 11 December 2007
5 m awayRef 2007400C03875
Slight
Rover 25 crash on a C road in Luton, 28 March 2008
5 m awayRef 2008400C01019
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 24, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2023401266809 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 2023.