Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 16 December 2014 at 16:50 involving a Citroen C4
A Citroen C4 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 16:50 on Tuesday 16 December 2014. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76406, longitude -2.67244, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201404SA14194
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 27 January 1989
5 m awayRef 1989040DA0198
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 25 July 1982
5 m awayRef 1982040DB0972
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in Preston, 13 March 1989
15 m awayRef 1989040DA0587
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 14 March 1996
15 m awayRef 199604D007896
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in Preston, 1 December 1979
25 m awayRef 1979040DB1856
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A59 in Preston, 19 May 1996
26 m awayRef 199604D017996
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen C4)
- 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 201404SA14194 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.