A59 crash in Preston on 20 April 2010 at 08:55 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the A59 in Preston at 08:55 on Tuesday 20 April 2010. A 23-year-old male passenger in the Fiat Punto was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 2010
- Tuesday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76143, longitude -2.68288, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fishwick & Frenchwood, Preston, PR1 4AY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201004DF10029
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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 3 January 1999.
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the A59 in Preston, 3 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199904D001499
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in Preston, 20 October 2025
1 m awayRef 2025041658522
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A59 in Preston, 3 August 2012
2 m awayRef 201204DF12119
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A59 in Preston, 7 November 2013
7 m awayRef 201304DF13121
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A59 in Preston, 1 September 1999
10 m awayRef 199904D047999
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A59 in Preston, 3 April 2005
10 m awayRef 200504D017005
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 201004DF10029 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 2010.