Unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 25 December 2015 at 09:31 involving a Peugeot Partner van
A Peugeot Partner van and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 09:31 on Friday 25 December 2015. The 39-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2015
- Friday, 09:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Partner and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77087, longitude -2.66738, 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 6NN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201504SA15603
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 8 April 2009
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 15 March 1981
22 m awayRef 1981040DC0382
Slight
Ford Probe crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 10 April 2006
36 m awayRef 200604DF06093
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 10 December 1988
42 m awayRef 1988040DB3133
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 19 December 2003
63 m awayRef 200304D069703
Serious
Piaggio Zip crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 19 May 2015
72 m awayRef 201504SA15224
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Partner
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 201504SA15603 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.