Unclassified road crash in Preston PR4 on 10 August 1990 at 16:30 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 16:30 on Friday 10 August 1990. The 13-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 1990
- Friday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78454, longitude -2.77157, in the PR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cottam.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990040DE2180
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 1983.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 21 July 1983
22 m awayRef 1983040DG1048
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 22 August 1980
60 m awayRef 1980040DG1190
Slight
Sym Orbit crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 14 March 2025
77 m awayRef 2025041565272
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 7 December 1999
100 m awayRef 199904D072299
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 23 January 1989
121 m awayRef 1989040DE0150
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 24 December 2000
189 m awayRef 200004D079400
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 13, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 1990040DE2180 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.