Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 15 February 2017 at 13:35 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 13:35 on Wednesday 15 February 2017. A 45-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2017
- Wednesday, 13:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76331, longitude -2.68819, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201704SA17052
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 March 2014.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 4 March 2014
5 m awayRef 201404DF14028
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B6243 in Preston, 9 June 1979
10 m awayRef 1979040DB0855
Slight
Ford S-Max crash on the B6243 in Preston, 31 January 2024
12 m awayRef 2024041405308
Serious
Mitsubishi Galant crash on the B6243 in Preston, 2 May 1995
22 m awayRef 199504D012995
Slight
Car crash on the B6243 in Preston, 18 January 2000
22 m awayRef 200004D003000
Slight
Car crash on the B6243 in Preston, 12 August 1997
22 m awayRef 199704D089597
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 201704SA17052 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 2017.