B6242 crash in Preston on 20 September 2011 at 08:40 involving a Honda Accord
A Honda Accord and a Seat Altea were involved in a crash on the B6242 in Preston at 08:40 on Tuesday 20 September 2011. The 36-year-old female driver of the Seat Altea was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 2011
- Tuesday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Accord and Seat Altea
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77851, longitude -2.69088, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fulwood. 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104DR11084
- 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
- 6242
- 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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 2015.
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 28 September 2015
12 m awayRef 201504SA15441
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the B6242 in Preston, 22 June 2011
21 m awayRef 201104DR11060
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 26 October 2018
22 m awayRef 201804SA18467
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the B6242 in Preston, 8 August 2024
25 m awayRef 2024041477137
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 14 July 2008
29 m awayRef 200804DF08140
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the B6242 in Preston, 13 October 2024
31 m awayRef 2024041503185
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,850 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Seat Altea
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Altea)
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 201104DR11084 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.