Unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR15 on 26 April 2001 at 16:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 16:55 on Thursday 26 April 2001. The 17-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 2001
- Thursday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.2331, longitude -5.25839, in the TR15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pool & Tehidy, Cornwall, TR15 3LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200150A221471
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2011.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Cornwall, 7 December 2011
22 m awayRef 201150AC3C034
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Kawasaki crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 18 July 2000
22 m awayRef 200050A222702
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 27 July 2005
22 m awayRef 200550A22J690
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 22 January 1999
22 m awayRef 199950A220219
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Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 24 April 2002
22 m awayRef 200250A221411
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 31 May 2001
22 m awayRef 200150A221983
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200150A221471 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.