A5085 crash in Preston on 17 March 2014 at 19:30 involving a Mitsubishi Colt
A Mitsubishi Colt and a Vauxhall Insignia were involved in a crash on the A5085 in Preston at 19:30 on Monday 17 March 2014. The 41-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Insignia was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Mar 2014
- Monday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi Colt and Vauxhall Insignia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77397, longitude -2.68719, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. 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
- 201404DF14043
- 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
- 5085
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2008.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A5085 in Preston, 19 December 2008
3 m awayRef 200804DF08263
Serious
Van crash on the A5085 in Preston, 3 November 1984
7 m awayRef 1984040DB1585
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A5085 in Preston, 25 September 2014
10 m awayRef 201404DF14145
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A5085 in Preston, 5 October 2000
11 m awayRef 200004D063300
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A5085 in Preston, 24 January 1998
11 m awayRef 199804D004598
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A5085 in Preston, 28 May 2000
11 m awayRef 200004D028000
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Colt
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Insignia)
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 201404DF14043 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 2014.