Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 12 September 2013 at 21:06 involving a Citroen Berlingo
Four vehicles, including a Citroen Berlingo and a Kia Picanto, were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 21:06 on Thursday 12 September 2013. The 28-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and the 26-year-old female driver of the Fiat Punto were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet road with a 20 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Sep 2013
- Thursday, 21:06
- Vehicles
- 4
- Citroen Berlingo and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76127, longitude -2.68328, 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
- 201304DF13101
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 59
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 1994.
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in Preston, 23 October 1994
9 m awayRef 199404D116194
Serious
Mercedes Cla Class crash on the A59 in Preston, 4 February 2025
11 m awayRef 2025041550474
Slight
Leyland crash on the A59 in Preston, 10 April 1993
15 m awayRef 199304D103093
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A59 in Preston, 24 December 1992
15 m awayRef 1992040DA3549
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A59 in Preston, 27 September 1994
15 m awayRef 199404D113994
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the A59 in Preston, 25 August 2022
22 m awayRef 2022041212681
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Berlingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Kia Picanto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 4: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (Fiat Punto)
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 201304DF13101 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 2013.