Serious unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 30 November 2014 at 15:40 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 15:40 on Sunday 30 November 2014. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Nov 2014
- Sunday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.761, longitude -2.6794, 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
- 201404SA14124
- 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
- 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, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 2000.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 14 February 2000
23 m awayRef 200004D009000
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 29 March 1996
33 m awayRef 199604D010296
Serious
Rover Montego crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 13 December 1991
33 m awayRef 1991040DA3423
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 11 November 1981
42 m awayRef 1981040DB1675
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 17 June 1995
43 m awayRef 199504D017895
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 13 January 2012
47 m awayRef 201204DF12006
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201404SA14124 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.