Unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 1 August 2016 at 19:17 involving a MAN lorry
A bicycle and a MAN lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 19:17 on Monday 1 August 2016. The 27-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 2016
- Monday, 19:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and MAN
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76336, longitude -2.72311, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the City Centre, Preston, PR1 8SQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604SA16343
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 April 2016.
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Zastava Yugo crash on the A5072 in Preston, 18 June 1991
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Serious
Lorry crash on the A5072 in Preston, 1 November 1989
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Slight
Car crash on the A5072 in Preston, 7 October 2019
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Volvo crash on the A5072 in Preston, 12 January 2011
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A583 in Preston, 13 December 2018
14 m awayRef 201804SA18611
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: MAN
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 10,518 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 27, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201604SA16343 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.