A5085 crash in Preston on 19 November 2017 at 22:30 involving a Mercedes SLK Class
A car and a Mercedes SLK Class were involved in a crash on the A5085 in Preston at 22:30 on Sunday 19 November 2017. The 56-year-old female driver of the Mercedes SLK Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 2017
- Sunday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes SLK Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77488, longitude -2.7069, in the PR1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plungington, Preston, PR1 7XB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201704SA17533
- 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
- 5085
- 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 light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 October 1981.
Serious
Car crash on the A5085 in Preston, 11 October 1981
At the same spotRef 1981040DB1480
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A583 in Preston, 7 March 2008
At the same spotRef 200804DL08030
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A5085 in Preston, 22 January 2013
7 m awayRef 201304DL13009
Slight
Van crash on the A5085 in Preston, 16 December 2014
8 m awayRef 201404SA14177
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A5085 in Preston, 12 July 1980
10 m awayRef 1980040DB0956
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5085 in Preston, 12 June 1996
10 m awayRef 199604L018796
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Mercedes SLK Class
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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes SLK Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201704SA17533 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.