C road crash in Preston PR2 on 18 April 2005 at 15:10 involving a Mitsubishi Space Star
A Mitsubishi Space Star hit a pedestrian on a C road in Preston at 15:10 on Monday 18 April 2005. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Apr 2005
- Monday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi Space Star
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7864, longitude -2.71758, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fulwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greyfriars, Preston, PR2 8XN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200504D018705
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 9 June 1999.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Preston, 9 June 1999
At the same spotRef 199904D031299
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Preston, 19 December 2006
At the same spotRef 200604DL06204
Slight
Austin 1300 crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 7 October 1991
At the same spotRef 1991040DB2732
Slight
Audi A4 crash on a C road in Preston, 13 December 2004
At the same spotRef 200404D070704
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 4 April 1985
At the same spotRef 1985040DC0407
Slight
Ford Granada crash on a C road in Preston, 6 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200204D011402
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Space Star
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,834 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Space Star)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200504D018705 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 2005.