A5071 crash in Preston on 28 December 2012 at 18:00 involving a Toyota Avensis taxi
A Toyota Avensis taxi and a Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A5071 in Preston at 18:00 on Friday 28 December 2012. The 27-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 2012
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and Suzuki GSF 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76395, longitude -2.7049, 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
- 201204DA12129
- 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
- 5071
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A5071 in Preston, 27 October 2007
4 m awayRef 200704DA07164
Slight
Car crash on the A5071 in Preston, 28 April 2003
4 m awayRef 200304D021003
Serious
Van crash on the A5071 in Preston, 10 September 1981
6 m awayRef 1981040DB1295
Slight
Car crash on the A5071 in Preston, 13 September 1986
6 m awayRef 1986040DA1748
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A5071 in Preston, 3 December 1991
6 m awayRef 1991040DA3285
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on the A5071 in Preston, 20 October 2025
8 m awayRef 2025041659622
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,762 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSF 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSF 600)
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 201204DA12129 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 2012.