Serious unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 31 January 2020 at 18:54 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Preston at 18:54 on Friday 31 January 2020. The 21-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Jan 2020
- Friday, 18:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Yamaha YZF R125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78794, longitude -2.73773, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fulwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ingol & Cottam, Preston, PR2 7AA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020040925689
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 September 2015.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 26 September 2015
4 m awayRef 201504SA15448
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 21 October 2025
24 m awayRef 2025041659833
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 14 December 2013
148 m awayRef 201304DL13112
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 6 August 2005
161 m awayRef 200504DL05047
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 5 September 1981
185 m awayRef 1981040DG1280
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 2 March 1991
199 m awayRef 1991040DE0569
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Yamaha YZF R125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YZF R125)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2020040925689 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 2020.