Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 15 December 2011 at 16:48 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 16:48 on Thursday 15 December 2011. A 39-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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2011
- Thursday, 16:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76099, longitude -2.69831, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the City Centre, Preston, PR1 1FB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104DA11122
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 March 1981.
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 13 March 1981
8 m awayRef 1981040DB0373
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 5 February 1987
12 m awayRef 1987040DA0238
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 20 May 2004
15 m awayRef 200404D028904
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 21 February 2010
22 m awayRef 201004DA10014
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 25 September 1982
24 m awayRef 1982040DB1282
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Preston, 24 November 2009
25 m awayRef 200904DA09142
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 201104DA11122 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.