Unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 18 September 2015 at 16:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 16:00 on Friday 18 September 2015. The 67-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and the 21-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2015
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77593, longitude -2.64698, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ribbleton, Preston, PR2 6EY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201504SA15404
- 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
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 July 1980.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 19 July 1980
At the same spotRef 1980040DC1025
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 29 May 2018
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Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 29 December 2001
22 m awayRef 200104D085101
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 10 March 2003
22 m awayRef 200304D011903
Slight
Rolls Royce crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 19 September 1992
22 m awayRef 1992040DB2547
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 6 May 2020
57 m awayRef 2020040950113
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 201504SA15404 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.