Unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 17 May 2018 at 16:40 involving a Mitsubishi Outlander
A Mitsubishi Outlander crashed on an unclassified road in Preston at 16:40 on Thursday 17 May 2018. The 28-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 May 2018
- Thursday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi Outlander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77171, longitude -2.74174, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashton, Preston, PR2 1SX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201804SA18208
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 1979.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 25 June 1979
14 m awayRef 1979040DG0971
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 9 December 1982
32 m awayRef 1982040DG1752
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 30 April 1979
36 m awayRef 1979040DG0628
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 10 March 1998
40 m awayRef 199804D015298
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 1 August 2006
92 m awayRef 200604DL06102
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6241 in Preston, 10 October 1997
98 m awayRef 199704D085697
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Outlander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,268 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Outlander)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201804SA18208 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.