Serious unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 27 September 1995 at 17:00 involving a Rover 800 Series
A Rover 800 Series and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 17:00 on Wednesday 27 September 1995. The 25-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Sep 1995
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 800 Series and Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75665, longitude -2.7031, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199504D030995
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
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The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2008.
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 800 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 25, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Honda)
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 199504D030995 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 1995.