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Unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 9 April 1987 at 23:20 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 23:20 on Thursday 9 April 1987. A 16-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
9 Apr 1987
Thursday, 23:20
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7965, longitude -2.72639, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fulwood.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1987040DB0763
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
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

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
Carriageway hazards
Other object in carriageway

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2009.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Hit object in carriageway
    Other object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 16, 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 1987040DB0763 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.