Serious unclassified road crash in Preston PR4 on 19 December 2015 at 00:21 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on an unclassified road in Preston at 00:21 on Saturday 19 December 2015. The 42-year-old female driver was seriously injured and a 51-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 2015
- Saturday, 00:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79811, longitude -2.78457, in the PR4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201504SA15590
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 March 1988.
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 10 March 1988
20 m awayRef 1988040DE0574
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 29 May 1979
36 m awayRef 1979040DG0791
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 4 December 1990
100 m awayRef 1990040DE3557
Slight
Isuzu crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 2 March 2004
102 m awayRef 200404D012904
Slight
Honda Insight crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 3 August 2010
110 m awayRef 201004DR10067
Serious
Renault Captur crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 23 March 2025
164 m awayRef 2025041576009
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201504SA15590 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.