Serious unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 22 December 2016 at 11:15 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 11:15 on Thursday 22 December 2016. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Dec 2016
- Thursday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79583, longitude -2.71957, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fulwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greyfriars, Preston, PR2 3LX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604SA16600
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 80 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 April 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 28 April 2005
80 m awayRef 200504D021805
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 18 May 1996
82 m awayRef 199604L016496
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 19 September 2025
88 m awayRef 2025041644042
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 27 September 1987
91 m awayRef 1987040DB2248
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 7 April 1982
91 m awayRef 1982040DC0434
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 22 July 1981
91 m awayRef 1981040DG1068
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 201604SA16600 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.