Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 4 October 2006 at 20:30 involving a Rover 600 Series
A Rover 600 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 20:30 on Wednesday 4 October 2006. A 6-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Oct 2006
- Wednesday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 600 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76234, longitude -2.66651, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ribbleton, Preston, PR1 4UH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200604DF06237
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 600 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200604DF06237 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.