Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL13 on 23 April 2000 at 12:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 12:30 on Sunday 23 April 2000. A 9-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 23 Apr 2000
- Sunday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.35537, longitude -4.45674, in the PL13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Looe.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050B521270
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 May 1986.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 23 May 1986
At the same spotRef 198650B521093
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Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 21 June 1991
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 22 July 1984
60 m awayRef 198450B521028
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Cornwall, 11 July 1989
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Slight
Car crash on the A387 in Cornwall, 5 March 1986
70 m awayRef 198650B510244
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200050B521270 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.