B6242 crash in Preston on 21 May 2004 at 13:13 involving a Peugeot 306
A motorcycle and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on the B6242 in Preston at 13:13 on Friday 21 May 2004. The 51-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 306 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
- 21 May 2004
- Friday, 13:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77803, longitude -2.68846, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fulwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Deepdale, Preston, PR1 6PA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200404D028004
- 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
- 6242
- 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 phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 1998.
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on the B6242 in the Ribble Valley, 12 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199804D064098
Serious
Renault crash on the B6242 in Preston, 23 February 1993
At the same spotRef 1993040DB0163
Slight
Bedford crash on the B6242 in Preston, 27 June 1990
At the same spotRef 1990040DB1682
Slight
Car crash on the B6242 in Preston, 11 June 1985
At the same spotRef 1985040DC0714
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the B6242 in Preston, 8 March 1997
At the same spotRef 199704L007897
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 1 July 2019
4 m awayRef 2019040853002
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 306)
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 200404D028004 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 2004.