Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 8 December 2015 at 20:26 involving a Hyundai i30
A motorcycle and a Hyundai i30 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 20:26 on Tuesday 8 December 2015. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2015
- Tuesday, 20:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Hyundai i30
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75782, longitude -2.70221, 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 1FB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201504SA15572
- 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
- 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
- Fine, 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 1992.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 13 August 1992
At the same spotRef 1992040DA2134
Serious
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 24 February 2004
At the same spotRef 200404D011504
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 23 January 1995
At the same spotRef 199504D002295
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 15 October 1982
10 m awayRef 1982040DB1402
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 31 July 1986
14 m awayRef 1986040DA1432
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 16 January 2003
20 m awayRef 200304D003203
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Hyundai i30
Car
- 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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201504SA15572 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.