Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 15 November 1979 at 07:45 involving a minibus
A minibus crashed on an unclassified road in Preston at 07:45 on Thursday 15 November 1979. A 56-year-old female passenger 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
- 15 Nov 1979
- Thursday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Minibus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76736, longitude -2.71481, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979040DB1763
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
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Serious
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Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 6 October 1979
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Minibus
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 56, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Minibus)
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 1979040DB1763 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Preston road accident statistics for 1979.