Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 20 December 2002 at 17:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 17:45 on Friday 20 December 2002. A 52-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2002
- Friday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75544, longitude -2.6937, 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
- 200204D072602
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 1992.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 28 September 1992
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14 m awayRef 199604D015796
Slight
JCB crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 19 June 2002
14 m awayRef 200204D033202
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 7 October 2021
21 m awayRef 2021041143108
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 8 April 2006
41 m awayRef 200604DA06051
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Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 10 September 2003
50 m awayRef 200304D047603
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 52, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200204D072602 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.