Unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR26 on 30 October 1997 at 16:20 involving a Nissan Almera
A Nissan Almera hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 16:20 on Thursday 30 October 1997. A 52-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 1997
- Thursday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.21195, longitude -5.48075, in the TR26 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Ives.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199750A324044
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 1979.
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Austin Metro crash on the B3306 in Cornwall, 8 February 1994
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 52, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Almera)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 199750A324044 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 1997.