B5269 crash in Preston on 22 August 2020 at 15:55 involving a Toyota Auris
A Toyota Auris and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the B5269 in Preston at 15:55 on Saturday 22 August 2020. The 23-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2020
- Saturday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Auris and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.82158, longitude -2.67593, in the PR3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020040975161
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5269
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 September 1997.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B5269 in Preston, 10 September 1997
26 m awayRef 199704D075497
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B5269 in Preston, 20 September 2024
27 m awayRef 2024041493873
Slight
Rover Range Rover crash on the B5269 in Preston, 21 October 2000
30 m awayRef 200004D063800
Serious
Lorry crash on the B5269 in Preston, 13 May 1988
30 m awayRef 1988040DF1179
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B5269 in Preston, 5 September 2024
34 m awayRef 2024041496332
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5269 in Preston, 14 December 1985
50 m awayRef 1985040DD1771
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Auris
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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020040975161 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.