B6242 crash in Preston on 25 April 2014 at 16:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 2014
- Friday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77803, longitude -2.68852, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201404DF14052
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 2013.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B6242 in Preston, 23 April 2013
2 m awayRef 201304DF13040
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B6242 in Preston, 21 May 2004
4 m awayRef 200404D028004
Slight
Car crash on the B6242 in Preston, 11 June 1985
4 m awayRef 1985040DC0714
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the B6242 in Preston, 8 March 1997
4 m awayRef 199704L007897
Slight
Bedford crash on the B6242 in Preston, 27 June 1990
4 m awayRef 1990040DB1682
Serious
Renault crash on the B6242 in Preston, 23 February 1993
4 m awayRef 1993040DB0163
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 201404DF14052 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.