A6063 crash in Preston on 6 September 2007 at 16:25 involving a van
A van and a minibus were involved in a crash on the A6063 in Preston at 16:25 on Thursday 6 September 2007. A 17-year-old female passenger in the minibus and a 62-year-old female passenger in the minibus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Sep 2007
- Thursday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and minibus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77218, longitude -2.69048, in the PR1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Deepdale, Preston, PR1 6PA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704DF07195
- 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
- 6063
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 November 2012.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6063 in Preston, 3 November 2012
8 m awayRef 201204DF12152
Slight
Mercedes CLK Class crash on the A6063 in Preston, 28 September 2012
8 m awayRef 201204DF12134
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A6063 in Preston, 23 February 1997
10 m awayRef 199704D005197
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6063 in Preston, 5 September 2008
10 m awayRef 200804DF08173
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6063 in Preston, 3 August 2001
10 m awayRef 200104D046601
Slight
Renault crash on the A6063 in Preston, 9 March 1993
10 m awayRef 1993040DA0236
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Minibus
Minibus (8 to 16 seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, minibus occupant, in vehicle 2 (Minibus)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 62, minibus occupant, in vehicle 2 (Minibus)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 200704DF07195 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.