Serious unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 6 February 2003 at 20:41 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 20:41 on Thursday 6 February 2003. A 37-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Feb 2003
- Thursday, 20:41
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75984, longitude -2.69468, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200304D027303
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2007.
Slight
Honda Concerto crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 23 December 2007
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 1 February 1993
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Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 29 December 1993
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Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 27 March 1995
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Serious
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 14 April 1989
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Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 24 March 1979
36 m awayRef 1979040DB0411
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 37, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- 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 200304D027303 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 2003.