Skip to main content
CrashStats

Serious A30 crash in Cornwall on 12 October 1998 at 07:10 involving a Piaggio Hexagon motorcycle

A Piaggio Hexagon motorcycle and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A30 in Cornwall at 07:10 on Monday 12 October 1998. The 35-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Hexagon motorcycle was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
12 Oct 1998
Monday, 07:10
Vehicles
2
Piaggio Hexagon and lorry
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.28267, longitude -5.15962, in the TR4 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
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199850A413913
Council area
Cornwall
Police force
Devon and Cornwall

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
30
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Trunk road (National Highways)

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
Carriageway hazards
Other object in carriageway

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 2003.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Piaggio Hexagon

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    35 years

  • Vehicle 2: Lorry

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver age
    40 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 35, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Hexagon)

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 199850A413913 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 1998.