Serious unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 15 June 2007 at 23:24 involving a Honda Accord taxi
A Honda Accord taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 23:24 on Friday 15 June 2007. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jun 2007
- Friday, 23:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Accord
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75939, longitude -2.69528, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the City Centre, Preston, PR1 1FB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704DA07095
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 1999.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 12 March 1999
14 m awayRef 199904D013399
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 8 April 2018
20 m awayRef 201804SA18136
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 18 November 1989
20 m awayRef 1989040DA3105
Serious
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 17 July 1998
20 m awayRef 199804D045598
Slight
LDV 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 20 March 2006
20 m awayRef 200604DA06034
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 15 December 1983
20 m awayRef 1983040DB1815
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Accord
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda Accord)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, 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 200704DA07095 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 2007.