A59 crash in Preston on 11 December 2007 at 08:30 involving a Toyota Hilux
A Toyota Hilux and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on the A59 in Preston at 08:30 on Tuesday 11 December 2007. The 29-year-old male driver of the Honda Civic, a 27-year-old male passenger in the Honda Civic and a 22-year-old male passenger in the Honda Civic were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 2007
- Tuesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Hilux and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76564, longitude -2.65427, 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, PR2 6NN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704DA07210
- 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
- Other 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
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 1996.
Slight
Rover Sterling crash on the A59 in Preston, 24 October 1996
At the same spotRef 199604D034196
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A59 in Preston, 20 August 2000
At the same spotRef 200004D048600
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A59 in Preston, 4 July 1993
At the same spotRef 199304D132393
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A59 in Preston, 18 August 2003
At the same spotRef 200304D045103
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A59 in Preston, 20 February 1994
At the same spotRef 199404D015394
Slight
Van crash on the A59 in Preston, 4 December 1992
At the same spotRef 1992040DA3251
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Hilux
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200704DA07210 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.