Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 2 December 2011 at 16:15 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 16:15 on Friday 2 December 2011. The 42-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2011
- Friday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7603, longitude -2.68278, 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
- 201104DF11103
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 February 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 16 February 1982
34 m awayRef 1982040DB0202
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 22 February 1985
35 m awayRef 1985040DB0213
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 15 August 2005
47 m awayRef 200504DA05063
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 23 December 2005
51 m awayRef 200504DF05196
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 17 June 1998
68 m awayRef 199804D037598
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 17 January 1985
70 m awayRef 1985040DB0052
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- 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
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 42, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201104DF11103 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.