Serious unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 20 May 2014 at 09:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 09:20 on Tuesday 20 May 2014. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 May 2014
- Tuesday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76719, longitude -2.68635, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Matthew's, Preston, PR1 5EX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201404DF14074
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 2008.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 10 May 2008
8 m awayRef 200804DF08091
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 24 November 2010
10 m awayRef 201004DF10109
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 24 May 2001
15 m awayRef 200104D030301
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 7 June 2002
38 m awayRef 200204D030402
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 12 July 1991
39 m awayRef 1991040DA1833
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 3 December 1999
45 m awayRef 199904D071399
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201404DF14074 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.