A505 crash in Luton on 11 March 2024 at 05:39 involving a Renault Kadjar
A Renault Kadjar and a Toyota Prius were involved in a crash on the A505 in Luton at 05:39 on Monday 11 March 2024. The 34-year-old female driver of the Renault Kadjar and the 46-year-old male driver of the Toyota Prius were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Mar 2024
- Monday, 05:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Kadjar and Toyota Prius
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88776, longitude -0.39057, in the LU2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Round Green, Luton, LU2 0PW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024401422845
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 505
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 2019.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A505 in Luton, 27 May 2019
1 m awayRef 2019400844449
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A505 in Luton, 1 June 2020
2 m awayRef 2020400963479
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A505 in Luton, 20 July 2025
5 m awayRef 2025401623284
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 30 September 2014
7 m awayRef 2014404CA1151
Serious
Yamaha GPD crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 7 October 2024
7 m awayRef 2024401506449
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 2 September 2020
8 m awayRef 2020400979908
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Kadjar
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Kadjar)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Prius)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2024401422845 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.