Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 23 October 2015 at 19:10 involving an Audi A6
A bicycle and an Audi A6 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 19:10 on Friday 23 October 2015. The 20-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2015
- Friday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Audi A6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76547, longitude -2.66806, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ribbleton, Preston, PR1 4UH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201504SA15502
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 2006.
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A59 in Preston, 27 September 2006
At the same spotRef 200604DF06224
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A59 in Preston, 6 June 1991
10 m awayRef 1991040DA1477
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A59 in Preston, 4 May 1995
10 m awayRef 199504D013095
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A59 in Preston, 15 December 1993
10 m awayRef 199304D188093
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the A59 in South Ribble, 28 November 2003
10 m awayRef 200304C113603
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A59 in Preston, 27 September 2000
10 m awayRef 200004D059500
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 20, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 201504SA15502 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.