Fatal unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 7 September 2004 at 15:19 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 15:19 on Tuesday 7 September 2004. An 80-year-old male pedestrian was killed.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 7 Sep 2004
- Tuesday, 15:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7608, longitude -2.69879, 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
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200404D049004
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
FatalMale, aged 80, 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 200404D049004 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.