C road crash in Preston PR1 on 7 March 2009 at 12:15 involving a Volkswagen Lupo
A Volkswagen Lupo and a Hyosung GT 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Preston at 12:15 on Saturday 7 March 2009. The 18-year-old male rider of the Hyosung GT 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Mar 2009
- Saturday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Lupo and Hyosung GT 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76907, longitude -2.68376, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Matthew's, Preston, PR1 5EX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200904DF09047
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Fine, 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2002.
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on a C road in Preston, 16 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200204D071702
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 24 October 1985
At the same spotRef 1985040DB1468
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on a C road in Preston, 24 July 1994
At the same spotRef 199404D105394
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on a C road in Preston, 8 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200204D012202
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 19 June 1990
At the same spotRef 1990040DA1604
Slight
Honda NSR125 crash on a C road in Preston, 2 November 2010
At the same spotRef 201004DF10100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Lupo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Hyosung GT 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Hyosung GT 125)
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 200904DF09047 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 2009.