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B653 crash in Luton on 11 September 2024 at 04:00 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the B653 in Luton at 04:00 on Wednesday 11 September 2024. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
11 Sep 2024
Wednesday, 04:00
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8741, longitude -0.4016, in the LU1 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
2024401491107
Council area
Luton
Police force
Bedfordshire
Police attended the scene
No, reported using a self completion form

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
653
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
20 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Other junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 February 2005.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Motorcycle, engine size unknown

    Left-hand drive
    No

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside
    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 2024401491107 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.