Unclassified road crash in Luton LU4 on 4 June 2024 at 15:40 involving a Ford C-Max
A Ford C-Max and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 15:40 on Tuesday 4 June 2024. The 8-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jun 2024
- Tuesday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford C-Max and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90758, longitude -0.47349, 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 9EJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024401452069
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 3 September 1984
29 m awayRef 19844000C1270
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 21 May 1996
29 m awayRef 19964000C0798
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 5 May 1995
29 m awayRef 19954000C0767
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 25 April 2017
34 m awayRef 2017400180577
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 16 August 2006
46 m awayRef 200640C019830
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 18 January 2003
56 m awayRef 2003400C00180
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford C-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 8, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2024401452069 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.