Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 1 December 2017 at 19:17 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 19:17 on Friday 1 December 2017. A 33-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2017
- Friday, 19:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75644, longitude -2.71023, 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 8SQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201704SA17513
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in Preston, 15 March 1988
At the same spotRef 1988040DA0639
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A59 in Preston, 5 November 1987
At the same spotRef 1987040DA2727
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Preston, 14 August 2006
At the same spotRef 200604DA06111
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in Preston, 4 July 1980
At the same spotRef 1980040DB0930
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A59 in Preston, 30 January 1990
At the same spotRef 1990040DA0266
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A59 in Preston, 21 December 1984
At the same spotRef 1984040DB1888
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201704SA17513 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.