Serious unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 18 September 2015 at 09:00 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 09:00 on Friday 18 September 2015. A 28-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Sep 2015
- Friday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77935, longitude -2.69438, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fulwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Garrison, Preston, PR2 8ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201504SA15504
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 1981.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 7 July 1981
14 m awayRef 1981040DC0963
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 10 December 1981
61 m awayRef 1981040DC1863
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B6242 in Preston, 8 October 2025
78 m awayRef 2025041651857
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B6242 in Preston, 25 August 2020
81 m awayRef 2020040976241
Serious
Car crash on the B6242 in Preston, 2 December 1980
82 m awayRef 1980040DC1841
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B6242 in Preston, 8 January 2001
85 m awayRef 200104D001501
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 201504SA15504 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.