A5085 crash in Preston on 18 December 1986 at 17:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A5085 in Preston at 17:10 on Thursday 18 December 1986. A 15-year-old female pedestrian and the 21-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1986
- Thursday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986040DB2648
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5085
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1986040DB2648 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 1986.