Serious unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 13 November 1993 at 11:00 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 11:00 on Saturday 13 November 1993. The 30-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Nova was seriously injured and a 4-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Nova and the 48-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Nov 1993
- Saturday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Nova and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79534, longitude -2.69525, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fulwood.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199304D176893
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 1994.
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Slight
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Fatal
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199304D176893 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.