Unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 8 May 2014 at 07:46 involving a Hyundai i10
A Hyundai i10 and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 07:46 on Thursday 8 May 2014. The 60-year-old female driver of the Hyundai i10 and the 69-year-old male driver of the Mercedes C Class were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 2014
- Thursday, 07:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai i10 and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7912, longitude -2.70277, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fulwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sharoe Green, Preston, PR2 9HZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201404DF14061
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 17 June 1986
4 m awayRef 1986040DB1048
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 2 December 1997
4 m awayRef 199704D106297
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 25 September 2009
6 m awayRef 200904DF09133
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 4 August 2012
12 m awayRef 201204DF12104
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 9 January 2007
13 m awayRef 200704DF07007
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 17 December 1987
14 m awayRef 1987040DB3030
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i10
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,086 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i10)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes C Class)
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 201404DF14061 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.