Police investigate fatal collision in Luton

Officers investigating a fatal collision in Luton this weekend are appealing for information.

Police were called just after 11am on Sunday (27 February) to a report of a collision in the car park of a church in Ashcroft Road.

Emergency services attended the scene and a woman in her 80s was taken to hospital with serious injuries, but sadly passed away yesterday (Monday).

Sergeant Timothy Davies, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Serious Collision Unit, said: “Our thoughts are with the victim’s family and friends, who sadly lost her life in this tragic incident. Her family are being supported by specially trained officers.

“We are trying to piece together the circumstances of what happened and are appealing to anyone who was in the vicinity of the car park and saw anything, or anyone who may have dashcam footage, to come forward. Any information will help us with our enquires.”

Anyone with information is asked to call 101 or report it via our online reporting tool quoting Operation Chance.