Unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR4 on 29 June 2001 at 17:00 involving a Volkswagen
A Volkswagen hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 17:00 on Friday 29 June 2001. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jun 2001
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.25656, longitude -5.15461, in the TR4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Threemilestone & Chacewater, Cornwall, TR4 8GP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200150A412504
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 15 July 2000
22 m awayRef 200050A412501
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 9 November 1984
81 m awayRef 198450A412143
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 25 March 1987
92 m awayRef 198750A410392
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 17 October 1981
99 m awayRef 198150A082090
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 19 January 1984
103 m awayRef 198450A410111
Slight
Honda C90E crash on a C road in Cornwall, 24 May 1990
106 m awayRef 199050A410723
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,285 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200150A412504 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.