Unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 1 February 2008 at 21:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 21:15 on Friday 1 February 2008. A 21-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 1 Feb 2008
- Friday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78117, longitude -2.6747, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fulwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brookfield, Preston, PR2 6XX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200804DF08020
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2005.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B6242 in Preston, 24 June 2005
10 m awayRef 200504DF05031
Serious
Car crash on the B6242 in Preston, 26 March 1982
10 m awayRef 1982040DC0371
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the B6241 in Preston, 18 March 2015
10 m awayRef 201504SA15127
Slight
Car crash on the B6242 in Preston, 13 April 1984
10 m awayRef 1984040DC0460
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 14 March 2008
10 m awayRef 200804DF08055
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6242 in Preston, 23 July 1980
10 m awayRef 1980040DC1016
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200804DF08020 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.