Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL31 on 1 August 1981 at 18:10 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 18:10 on Saturday 1 August 1981. The 14-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 1981
- Saturday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.47001, longitude -4.7239, in the PL31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bodmin.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150B191004
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 13 October 1979
At the same spotRef 197950B191523
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 27 March 1987
20 m awayRef 198750B310335
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 9 August 2002
54 m awayRef 200250B513225
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 21 March 2001
71 m awayRef 200150B310999
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 25 August 2025
71 m awayRef 2025501633452
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 9 May 1986
94 m awayRef 198650B310976
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 14, 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 198150B191004 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.