B4540 crash in Luton on 30 January 2024 at 07:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Vauxhall Mokka were involved in a crash on the B4540 in Luton at 07:00 on Tuesday 30 January 2024. The 34-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 2024
- Tuesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Vauxhall Mokka
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86642, longitude -0.43428, in the LU1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Farley, Luton, LU1 5PF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024401405177
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4540
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 September 2025.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4540 in Luton, 11 September 2025
At the same spotRef 2025401647834
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4540 in Luton, 4 October 2019
At the same spotRef 2019400886700
Slight
BMW X1 crash on the B4540 in Luton, 1 July 2025
2 m awayRef 2025401614016
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4540 in Luton, 25 January 2022
4 m awayRef 2022401136713
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A1081 in Luton, 3 December 1998
5 m awayRef 1998400C06026
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B4540 in Luton, 22 February 2007
5 m awayRef 2007400C00627
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Mokka
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2024401405177 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 2024.