Skip to main content
CrashStats

A3047 crash in Cornwall on 31 December 2000 at 15:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo

A Volkswagen Polo and a Citroen AX were involved in a crash on the A3047 in Cornwall at 15:00 on Sunday 31 December 2000. A 75-year-old female passenger in the Citroen AX was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
31 Dec 2000
Sunday, 15:00
Vehicles
2
Volkswagen Polo and Citroen AX
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.24343, longitude -5.23301, in the TR15 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
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
200050A224927
Council area
Cornwall
Police force
Devon and Cornwall
Police attended the scene
Yes

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
3047
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining with high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 February 2006.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years
    Engine capacity
    1,043 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    9 years

  • Vehicle 2: Citroen AX

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    77 years
    Engine capacity
    1,527 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    5 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen AX)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 200050A224927 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 2000.