Serious unclassified road crash in Preston PR1 on 21 August 2018 at 06:30 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 06:30 on Tuesday 21 August 2018. The 53-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Aug 2018
- Tuesday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7691, longitude -2.69679, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Deepdale, Preston, PR1 6PA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201804SA18351
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 July 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 9 July 1982
At the same spotRef 1982040DB0897
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 12 August 2007
At the same spotRef 200704DF07174
Slight
Taxi crash on a C road in Preston, 6 April 2006
At the same spotRef 200604DF06063
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 19 July 2016
At the same spotRef 201604SA16359
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Preston, 2 October 2006
At the same spotRef 200604DF06234
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 20 January 2023
6 m awayRef 2023041268086
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 53, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 201804SA18351 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.