Serious unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL26 on 20 December 2001 at 15:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 15:55 on Thursday 20 December 2001. The 33-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Dec 2001
- Thursday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.39008, longitude -4.78426, in the PL26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200150B415243
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 1998.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A391 in Cornwall, 6 April 1998
36 m awayRef 199850B411388
Serious
Car crash on the B3324 in Cornwall, 6 September 1988
41 m awayRef 198850B411426
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 17 August 2004
41 m awayRef 200450A62L519
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the B3374 in Cornwall, 23 May 2008
45 m awayRef 200850GA2D003
Fatal
Car crash on the B3374 in Cornwall, 17 September 1988
61 m awayRef 198850B411443
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A391 in Cornwall, 21 July 2001
110 m awayRef 200150B412907
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- 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
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 96 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 33, motorcyclist (125cc 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 200150B415243 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.