Unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 20 May 2018 at 15:00 involving a Bentley Continental
A Bentley Continental hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 15:00 on Sunday 20 May 2018. A 27-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 2018
- Sunday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bentley Continental
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75902, longitude -2.6995, 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
- 201804SA18200
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 September 1979.
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 29 September 1979
10 m awayRef 1979040DB1438
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 14 April 2000
14 m awayRef 200004D019900
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 27 June 2012
17 m awayRef 201204DA12060
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 12 March 1980
20 m awayRef 1980040DB0365
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 24 October 1998
22 m awayRef 199804D067798
Slight
Fiat Ducato crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 31 August 2003
22 m awayRef 200304D046003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bentley Continental
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Bentley Continental)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 201804SA18200 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 2018.