B6243 crash in Preston on 23 January 2002 at 11:38 involving a Toyota Carina
A Toyota Carina and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B6243 in Preston at 11:38 on Wednesday 23 January 2002. The 19-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 2002
- Wednesday, 11:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Carina and Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7632, longitude -2.68791, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the City Centre, Preston, PR1 1FB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200204D004002
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6243
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 1997.
Slight
Car crash on the B6243 in Preston, 12 August 1997
At the same spotRef 199704D089597
Slight
Car crash on the B6243 in Preston, 18 January 2000
At the same spotRef 200004D003000
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6243 in Preston, 13 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200204D071802
Serious
Car crash on the B6243 in Preston, 25 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200104D030901
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B6243 in Preston, 30 November 1996
At the same spotRef 199604D038696
Serious
Mitsubishi Galant crash on the B6243 in Preston, 2 May 1995
At the same spotRef 199504D012995
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,974 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Honda
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (over 125cc), 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 200204D004002 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 2002.