Unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 13 November 2013 at 07:30 involving a Volkswagen Transporter van
A Volkswagen Transporter van and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 07:30 on Wednesday 13 November 2013. The 43-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Transporter van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Nov 2013
- Wednesday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Transporter and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77809, longitude -2.70269, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fulwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Garrison, Preston, PR2 8ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201304DF13123
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 2008.
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the B6242 in Preston, 13 November 2008
13 m awayRef 200804DF08230
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Ford Fiesta crash on the B6242 in the Ribble Valley, 6 August 1998
13 m awayRef 199804D050598
Slight
Car crash on the B6242 in Preston, 7 November 1985
13 m awayRef 1985040DC1537
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 19 July 2007
13 m awayRef 200704DF07162
Slight
Car crash on the B6242 in Preston, 15 December 1980
13 m awayRef 1980040DC1891
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B6242 in Preston, 9 February 2012
14 m awayRef 201204DF12023
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Transporter)
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 201304DF13123 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.