Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 13 September 1982 at 15:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 15:20 on Monday 13 September 1982. An 8-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 1982
- Monday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75724, longitude -2.6928, 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
- 1982040DB1225
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1980.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 20 December 1980
At the same spotRef 1980040DB1919
Slight
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Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 16 November 1998
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Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 22 September 2025
13 m awayRef 2025041645665
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 24 June 1981
14 m awayRef 1981040DB0905
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 29 July 1983
14 m awayRef 1983040DB1119
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1982040DB1225 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.