A5085 crash in Preston on 3 December 2002 at 17:17 involving a Skoda Felicia
A Skoda Felicia and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A5085 in Preston at 17:17 on Tuesday 3 December 2002. A 34-year-old female passenger in the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2002
- Tuesday, 17:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Felicia and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76905, longitude -2.74687, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashton, Preston, PR2 1SX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200204D067902
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5085
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 20 October 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A5085 in Preston, 20 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200404D059304
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on the A5085 in Preston, 20 November 2000
At the same spotRef 200004D070900
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A5085 in Preston, 23 January 2000
At the same spotRef 200004D003900
Slight
Car crash on the A5085 in Preston, 2 June 1992
10 m awayRef 1992040DE1432
Slight
Car crash on the A5085 in Preston, 17 August 1988
10 m awayRef 1988040DE1985
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A5085 in Preston, 26 March 1995
10 m awayRef 199504L010195
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Felicia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,289 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200204D067902 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.