Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 4 May 1981 at 22:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Preston at 22:50 on Monday 4 May 1981. The 32-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 1981
- Monday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75994, longitude -2.69315, 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
- 1981040DB0664
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 1987.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 13 April 1987
At the same spotRef 1987040DA0769
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 7 March 1980
At the same spotRef 1980040DB0337
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 4 June 1980
At the same spotRef 1980040DB0767
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Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 10 December 2008
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Electric motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 21 April 2023
4 m awayRef 2023041300188
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 32, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1981040DB0664 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 1981.