A5071 crash in Preston on 21 June 2021 at 08:45 involving a Peugeot Expert van
A Peugeot Expert van and a Yamaha GPD 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A5071 in Preston at 08:45 on Monday 21 June 2021. The 21-year-old male rider of the Yamaha GPD 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 2021
- Monday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Expert and Yamaha GPD 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76472, longitude -2.70465, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Matthew's, Preston, PR1 1SY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021041108411
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5071
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 December 1979.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A5071 in Preston, 11 December 1979
4 m awayRef 1979040DB1901
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5071 in Preston, 21 June 2008
4 m awayRef 200804DA08088
Slight
Talbot Horizon crash on the A5071 in Preston, 12 February 1992
4 m awayRef 1992040DA0353
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 24 December 1994
7 m awayRef 199404D125594
Serious
Honda NSR125 crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 10 November 2011
8 m awayRef 201104DA11113
Slight
Van crash on the A5071 in Preston, 26 August 1982
11 m awayRef 1982040DB1163
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Expert
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Yamaha GPD 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha GPD 125)
- 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 2021041108411 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.