Serious B6243 crash in Preston on 27 March 1993 at 06:36 involving a Nissan Sunny
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Mar 1993
- Saturday, 06:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Sunny
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76867, longitude -2.67584, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993040DA0271
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6243
- 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
- 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 26 April 2005.
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the B6243 in Preston, 26 April 2005
At the same spotRef 200504D020405
Slight
Bus crash on the B6243 in Preston, 23 November 1979
14 m awayRef 1979040DB1809
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the B6243 in Preston, 7 October 2023
22 m awayRef 2023041360703
Slight
Car crash on the B6243 in Preston, 4 January 1993
22 m awayRef 1993040DA0008
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B6243 in Preston, 18 October 1993
22 m awayRef 199304D165893
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the B6243 in Preston, 4 July 2025
22 m awayRef 2025041615602
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,680 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Sunny)
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 1993040DA0271 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 1993.