Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 25 March 1997 at 15:45 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 15:45 on Tuesday 25 March 1997. A 73-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Mar 1997
- Tuesday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77505, longitude -2.67595, 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
- 199704D010597
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 1993.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 73, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 199704D010597 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 1997.