Serious A6 crash in Preston on 26 June 2016 at 01:15 involving a bus or coach
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Jun 2016
- Sunday, 01:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76112, longitude -2.69015, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604SA16291
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 September 1985.
Serious
Van crash on the A6 in Preston, 23 September 1985
At the same spotRef 1985040DB1275
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A6 in Preston, 16 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025041669331
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the A59 in Preston, 14 December 2016
10 m awayRef 201604SA16592
Slight
Van crash on the A6 in Preston, 30 October 1984
10 m awayRef 1984040DB1555
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A6 in Preston, 17 June 2009
10 m awayRef 200904DF09120
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A6 in Preston, 17 March 2016
10 m awayRef 201604SA16199
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,630 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
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 201604SA16291 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 2016.