Unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 23 March 2002 at 10:50 involving a Jaguar X Type
A Jaguar X Type and a Nissan Primera were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 10:50 on Saturday 23 March 2002. The 49-year-old male driver of the Nissan Primera was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2002
- Saturday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Jaguar X Type and Nissan Primera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76139, longitude -2.73582, in the PR2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashton, Preston, PR2 1ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200204D016502
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 1996.
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Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 19 June 1997
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Rover Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 19 March 1995
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Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 15 August 2016
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar X Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,099 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Primera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Primera)
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 200204D016502 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.