Unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR14 on 21 July 2001 at 11:40 involving a Datsun Sunny
A Datsun Sunny and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 11:40 on Saturday 21 July 2001. All nine casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 2001
- Saturday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Datsun Sunny and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 9
- 9 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.20803, longitude -5.29229, in the TR14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Camborne.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200150A212735
- 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
- Urban
- 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
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Datsun Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,488 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (9)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Datsun Sunny)
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Datsun Sunny)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 6: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Datsun Sunny)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 7: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 1, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Datsun Sunny)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 8: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Datsun Sunny)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 9: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Datsun Sunny)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200150A212735 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 2001.