Unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 22 December 1989 at 15:30 involving a taxi
A taxi and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 15:30 on Friday 22 December 1989. A 65-year-old male passenger in the taxi was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1989
- Friday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77178, longitude -2.64858, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989040DB3519
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 2020.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 2 May 2020
5 m awayRef 2020040949118
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 2 April 1989
10 m awayRef 1989040DB0760
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 20 April 2011
22 m awayRef 201104DR11039
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 31 August 1979
22 m awayRef 1979040DC1277
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 30 March 1996
40 m awayRef 199604L009496
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 20 November 1995
50 m awayRef 199504L039795
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 65, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1989040DB3519 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 1989.