B6243 crash in Preston on 26 August 2009 at 17:45 involving a Volkswagen LT 35 van
A Volkswagen LT 35 van and a Gilera Runner motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B6243 in Preston at 17:45 on Wednesday 26 August 2009. The 15-year-old male rider of the Gilera Runner motorcycle 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
- 26 Aug 2009
- Wednesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen LT 35 and Gilera Runner
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77756, longitude -2.65977, 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
- 200904DR09043
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2010.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B6243 in Preston, 21 April 2010
At the same spotRef 201004DR10029
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6243 in Preston, 12 December 1980
At the same spotRef 1980040DC1876
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 4 April 2010
At the same spotRef 201004DR10027
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 8 January 2016
At the same spotRef 201604SA16060
Slight
Car crash on the B6243 in Preston, 7 March 2007
At the same spotRef 200704DF07050
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the B6243 in Preston, 20 May 2013
6 m awayRef 201304DF13051
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen LT 35
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Gilera Runner
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 15, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Gilera Runner)
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 200904DR09043 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.