Unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 7 July 1981 at 16:25 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 16:25 on Tuesday 7 July 1981. The 8-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jul 1981
- Tuesday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77944, longitude -2.69423, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fulwood.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981040DC0963
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 September 2015.
Serious
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Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 10 December 1981
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Serious
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Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B6242 in Preston, 25 August 2020
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Serious
Car crash on the B6242 in Preston, 2 December 1980
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Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on the B6242 in Preston, 24 November 2002
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 8, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 1981040DC0963 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.