Unclassified road crash in Luton LU2 on 21 June 2023 at 13:21 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Peugeot 3008 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 13:21 on Wednesday 21 June 2023. The male driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 2023
- Wednesday, 13:21
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Peugeot 3008
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87929, longitude -0.40357, in the LU2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Vauxhall, Luton, LU2 0SX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023401323486
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 12 December 2015
2 m awayRef 2015405CA1489
Slight
Volvo crash on the A6 in Luton, 21 December 2015
2 m awayRef 2015405CA1527
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 22 December 2018
2 m awayRef 2018400805933
Slight
Peugeot crash on the A6 in Luton, 29 August 2016
3 m awayRef 2016400107779
Serious
Piaggio Fly crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 31 August 2017
4 m awayRef 2017400220768
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 14 May 2017
4 m awayRef 2017400184718
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 3008
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2023401323486 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.