Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 26 September 2004 at 14:55 involving a Mini One
A Mini One and a Toyota Avensis were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 14:55 on Sunday 26 September 2004. All five casualties were 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
- 26 Sep 2004
- Sunday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini One and Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76772, longitude -2.69951, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Matthew's, Preston, PR1 1SY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200404D054504
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 1999.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini One
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Avensis)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Avensis)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Avensis)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini One)
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini One)
- 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 200404D054504 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.