Serious unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 31 December 1984 at 09:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 09:00 on Monday 31 December 1984. An 85-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Dec 1984
- Monday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7923, longitude -2.70856, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fulwood.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1984040DC1903
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 September 2004.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 14 September 2004
22 m awayRef 200404D052904
Serious
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 10 December 1980
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Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 15 September 2012
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 25 November 2025
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Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 9 October 1985
45 m awayRef 1985040DC1415
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 85, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- 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 1984040DC1903 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.