Unclassified road crash in Preston PR3 on 27 September 2021 at 07:27 involving a Volkswagen Caddy van
A Volkswagen Caddy van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Preston at 07:27 on Monday 27 September 2021. A 23-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2021
- Monday, 07:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Caddy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.83591, longitude -2.60982, in the PR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Longridge, Ribble Valley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021041096535
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 July 1994.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 12 July 1994
11 m awayRef 199404L106594
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 14 December 2021
17 m awayRef 2021041122065
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 21 December 1990
17 m awayRef 1990040DF3691
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 20 December 2016
17 m awayRef 201604EG16295
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 5 September 2025
19 m awayRef 2025041638537
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 17 September 2012
21 m awayRef 201204EN12105
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Caddy
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Caddy)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
- 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 2021041096535 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 2021.