Serious unclassified road crash in Luton LU4 on 7 September 2024 at 16:20 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Luton at 16:20 on Saturday 7 September 2024. A 25-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Sep 2024
- Saturday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89216, longitude -0.45482, in the LU4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Challney, Luton, LU4 8QW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Luton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024401491908
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 March 2019.
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 4 March 2019
6 m awayRef 2019400822758
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 26 November 2017
7 m awayRef 2017400244614
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 14 December 2017
8 m awayRef 2017400249608
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A505 in Luton, 8 November 2018
9 m awayRef 2018400344610
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A505 in Luton, 8 March 2024
9 m awayRef 2024401420148
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on a C road in Luton, 23 October 2008
10 m awayRef 2008400C03152
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2024401491908 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.