Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 7 June 1984 at 13:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 13:30 on Thursday 7 June 1984. A 3-year-old male 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
- 7 Jun 1984
- Thursday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76669, longitude -2.6749, 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
- 1984040DB0766
- 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
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The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 November 2023.
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Bus crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 3 November 1984
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 6 June 1982
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Toyota Celica crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 24 January 1990
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 3, 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 1984040DB0766 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 1984.