C road crash in Cornwall TR14 on 17 July 1981 at 18:05 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Cornwall at 18:05 on Friday 17 July 1981. The 13-year-old male cyclist 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
- 17 Jul 1981
- Friday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.19593, longitude -5.27721, in the TR14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150A011346
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 March 2010.
Serious
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Cornwall, 22 March 2010
At the same spotRef 201050AC2B004
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Cornwall, 29 February 2008
At the same spotRef 200850A21B906
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 11 August 1983
At the same spotRef 198350A211473
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 23 November 1988
At the same spotRef 198850A212031
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 21 November 2018
4 m awayRef 2018500802436
Slight
Kymco Agility crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 30 October 2025
7 m awayRef 2025501661884
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 13, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198150A011346 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cornwall road accident statistics for 1981.