Unclassified road crash in Cornwall EX23 on 9 August 1997 at 19:50 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 19:50 on Saturday 9 August 1997. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Aug 1997
- Saturday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78327, longitude -4.52997, in the EX23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199750B712808
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 199750B712808 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.