A6 crash in Preston on 24 October 1987 at 11:00 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 1987
- Saturday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77164, longitude -2.70578, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987040DA2552
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 24 April 1984.
Slight
Minibus crash on the A6 in Preston, 24 April 1984
At the same spotRef 1984040DB0533
Slight
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2 m awayRef 201204DL12078
Slight
Mazda Premacy crash on the A6 in Preston, 9 December 2014
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Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on the A6 in Preston, 19 February 2019
6 m awayRef 2019040825280
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A6 in Preston, 26 December 2025
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Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Preston, 3 November 1983
10 m awayRef 1983040DB1576
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1987040DA2552 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 1987.