Serious B3263 crash in Cornwall on 14 July 2000 at 05:30 involving a Honda VT500E motorcycle
A car and a Honda VT500E motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B3263 in Cornwall at 05:30 on Friday 14 July 2000. The 49-year-old male rider of the Honda VT500E motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Jul 2000
- Friday, 05:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Honda VT500E
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.66734, longitude -4.73751, in the PL34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050B722470
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3263
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2014.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B3263 in Cornwall, 19 December 2014
29 m awayRef 201450BC2G007
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B3263 in Cornwall, 28 May 1993
54 m awayRef 199350B720920
Slight
Car crash on the B3263 in Cornwall, 12 April 1979
54 m awayRef 197950B300455
Serious
Car crash on the B3263 in Cornwall, 26 July 1986
54 m awayRef 198650B721465
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3263 in Cornwall, 3 October 1986
89 m awayRef 198650B721900
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 18 October 1999
117 m awayRef 199950B723983
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Honda VT500E
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda VT500E)
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 200050B722470 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.