Serious unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 7 July 2011 at 19:45 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 19:45 on Thursday 7 July 2011. The 22-year-old female driver of the Rover 200 Series was seriously injured and a 34-year-old male passenger in the Rover 200 Series 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
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Jul 2011
- Thursday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76749, longitude -2.69622, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Deepdale, Preston, PR1 6PA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104DA11072
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 12 May 1983
7 m awayRef 1983040DB0716
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 8 August 1993
7 m awayRef 199304D190093
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 7 July 2002
7 m awayRef 200204D036302
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 26 November 1990
12 m awayRef 1990040DA3484
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 24 May 1987
14 m awayRef 1987040DA1201
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 19 December 2003
14 m awayRef 200304D068903
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
- 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 201104DA11072 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 2011.