A6 crash in Preston on 7 December 2005 at 16:05 involving a Honda Accord
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2005
- Wednesday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Accord
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77173, longitude -2.70595, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plungington, Preston, PR1 7XB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200504DF05188
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Special conditions at the site
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 1991.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A6 in Preston, 2 January 1991
At the same spotRef 1991040DA0036
Slight
Nissan Cherry crash on the A6 in Preston, 6 August 1993
At the same spotRef 199304D144193
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A6 in Preston, 5 January 2000
At the same spotRef 200004D000300
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A6 in Preston, 4 March 1987
At the same spotRef 1987040DA0419
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the A6 in Preston, 13 November 1991
At the same spotRef 1991040DA3169
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A6 in Preston, 24 August 1990
At the same spotRef 1990040DA2301
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,254 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda Accord)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 200504DF05188 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.