B6243 crash in Preston on 21 January 2008 at 16:55 involving a Hyundai Coupe
A car and a Hyundai Coupe were involved in a crash on the B6243 in Preston at 16:55 on Monday 21 January 2008. The 22-year-old female driver of the Hyundai Coupe was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2008
- Monday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Hyundai Coupe
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77585, longitude -2.66156, in the PR2 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
- 200804DF08011
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6243
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 2015.
Slight
Qingqi QM 125 crash on the B6243 in Preston, 11 March 2015
At the same spotRef 201504SA15142
Serious
Car crash on the B6243 in Preston, 30 January 1984
At the same spotRef 1984040DC0130
Serious
E-scooter crash on the B6243 in Preston, 10 July 2022
4 m awayRef 2022041197457
Serious
Car crash on the B6243 in Preston, 24 August 1980
10 m awayRef 1980040DC1189
Serious
Bus crash on the B6243 in Preston, 11 April 1983
10 m awayRef 1983040DC0578
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B6243 in Preston, 10 December 2009
10 m awayRef 200904DR09094
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Coupe
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai Coupe)
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 200804DF08011 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 2008.