Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL17 on 1 January 1981 at 02:25 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 02:25 on Thursday 1 January 1981. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 1981
- Thursday, 02:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.50416, longitude -4.30981, in the PL17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Callington.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150B170002
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 2006.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on a C road in Cornwall, 17 February 2006
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Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 18 March 2003
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Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on a C road in Cornwall, 10 July 2006
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 20 May 2011
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Fatal
Mercedes Vito crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 17 October 2002
67 m awayRef 200250B534124
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Cornwall, 20 October 2006
67 m awayRef 200650B53N350
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198150B170002 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.