A5071 crash in Preston on 31 July 1982 at 12:10 involving a car
Four cars were involved in a crash on the A5071 in Preston at 12:10 on Saturday 31 July 1982. The 45-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and an 86-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 were 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
- 31 Jul 1982
- Saturday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 4
- Car and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.764, longitude -2.70505, 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
- 1982040DB1007
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5071
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A5071 in Preston, 13 September 1986
10 m awayRef 1986040DA1748
Serious
Van crash on the A5071 in Preston, 10 September 1981
10 m awayRef 1981040DB1295
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A5071 in Preston, 3 December 1991
10 m awayRef 1991040DA3285
Slight
Suzuki Carry crash on the A5071 in Preston, 11 December 2006
10 m awayRef 200604DA06199
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A5071 in Preston, 28 December 2012
13 m awayRef 201204DA12129
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on the A5071 in Preston, 20 October 2025
13 m awayRef 2025041659622
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 86, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1982040DB1007 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 1982.