A6 crash in Preston on 29 December 1997 at 13:10 involving a Toyota Celica
A Toyota Celica and a car were involved in a crash on the A6 in Preston at 13:10 on Monday 29 December 1997. The 52-year-old male driver of the car and a 51-year-old female passenger in the car 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
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1997
- Monday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Celica and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76024, longitude -2.68709, 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
- 199704D113097
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 59
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 1990.
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Preston, 27 October 1990
At the same spotRef 1990040DA3002
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the A6 in Preston, 16 June 1998
At the same spotRef 199804D036998
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A59 in Preston, 28 June 1998
At the same spotRef 199804D043598
Serious
Car crash on the A6 in Preston, 15 November 1985
At the same spotRef 1985040DB1604
Serious
Car crash on the A6 in Preston, 21 August 1992
At the same spotRef 1992040DA2161
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on the A6 in Preston, 16 January 1998
At the same spotRef 199804D004998
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Celica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,762 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199704D113097 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.