Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 18 December 1990 at 05:55 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 05:55 on Tuesday 18 December 1990. The 35-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1990
- Tuesday, 05:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75489, longitude -2.71126, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990040DA3636
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 8 November 1982
14 m awayRef 1982040DB1546
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 19 December 1980
71 m awayRef 1980040DB1990
Serious
Car crash on the A59 in Preston, 29 September 1984
72 m awayRef 1984040DB1349
Slight
Bus crash on the A59 in Preston, 10 April 1984
78 m awayRef 1984040DB0439
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 26 August 1995
78 m awayRef 199504D025195
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 20 August 2018
85 m awayRef 201804SA18349
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,489 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 35, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 1990040DA3636 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 1990.