Serious unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 27 September 1985 at 15:35 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 15:35 on Friday 27 September 1985. The 23-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Sep 1985
- Friday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75442, longitude -2.69973, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985040DB1287
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 1991.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 7 March 1991
20 m awayRef 1991040DA0581
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 27 September 1985
20 m awayRef 1985040DB1318
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 15 May 2006
20 m awayRef 200604DA06063
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 6 April 2019
25 m awayRef 2019040850600
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 24 August 1991
40 m awayRef 1991040DA2315
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 21 March 1993
50 m awayRef 1993040DA0249
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 23, 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 1985040DB1287 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 1985.