A59 crash in Preston on 6 December 2007 at 12:07 involving a Jaguar X Type
A Jaguar X Type and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the A59 in Preston at 12:07 on Thursday 6 December 2007. A 23-year-old male passenger in the Jaguar X Type was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 12:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Jaguar X Type and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76573, longitude -2.65442, 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
- 200704DF07264
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2010.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A59 in Preston, 7 July 2010
At the same spotRef 201004DF10055
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 29 January 1979
At the same spotRef 1979040DC0151
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in Preston, 21 February 1980
At the same spotRef 1980040DB0276
Slight
Audi Q7 crash on the A59 in Preston, 24 February 2010
At the same spotRef 201004DF10013
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A59 in the Ribble Valley, 29 September 2002
10 m awayRef 200204E077602
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A59 in Preston, 29 May 2006
10 m awayRef 200604DF06109
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar X Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jaguar X Type)
- 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 200704DF07264 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.