Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 29 November 2014 at 14:04 involving a Vauxhall Insignia
A Vauxhall Insignia hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 14:04 on Saturday 29 November 2014. A 50-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Nov 2014
- Saturday, 14:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Insignia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75771, longitude -2.69753, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the City Centre, Preston, PR1 1FB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201404SA14129
- 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
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 8 December 1979
5 m awayRef 1979040DB1873
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Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 17 December 1997
15 m awayRef 199704D110397
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Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 21 August 2004
18 m awayRef 200404D048104
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 21 July 2004
25 m awayRef 200404D041504
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Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 8 April 2006
30 m awayRef 200604DA06046
Slight
Citroen C8 crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 17 August 2013
33 m awayRef 201304DA13059
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Insignia)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 201404SA14129 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.