Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 8 May 2015 at 22:25 involving a London Taxis Int. TX1
A London Taxis Int. TX1 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 22:25 on Friday 8 May 2015. A 51-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 2015
- Friday, 22:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- London Taxis Int. TX1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75716, longitude -2.7069, 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 8SQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201504SA15217
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 July 1985.
Slight
Van crash on the A59 in Preston, 22 July 1985
At the same spotRef 1985040DB0949
Slight
Bus crash on the A59 in Preston, 24 July 1986
At the same spotRef 1986040DA1365
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Preston, 3 July 2007
10 m awayRef 200704DA07120
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 9 July 2018
10 m awayRef 201804SA18319
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 2 November 1996
10 m awayRef 199604D035196
Slight
Bus crash on the A59 in Preston, 23 February 1987
10 m awayRef 1987040DA0364
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: London Taxis Int. TX1
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,664 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 51, hit by vehicle 1 (London Taxis Int. TX1)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201504SA15217 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 2015.