Serious A59 crash in Preston on 25 April 2006 at 08:48 involving a Honda C90 motorcycle
A car and a Honda C90 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A59 in Preston at 08:48 on Tuesday 25 April 2006. The 45-year-old male rider of the Honda C90 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Apr 2006
- Tuesday, 08:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Honda C90
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76538, longitude -2.66929, 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 5EX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200604DF06072
- 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
- 59
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in Preston, 25 March 1985
At the same spotRef 1985040DB0352
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A59 in Preston, 27 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200304D004803
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A59 in Preston, 27 October 1988
At the same spotRef 1988040DA2687
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A59 in Preston, 26 June 1995
At the same spotRef 199504D018795
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in Preston, 23 November 1981
At the same spotRef 1981040DB1747
Serious
Car crash on the A59 in Preston, 4 July 1984
At the same spotRef 1984040DB0926
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Honda C90
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 85 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda C90)
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 200604DF06072 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 2006.