A38 crash in Cornwall on 29 July 2001 at 10:03 involving a Honda ST1100 motorcycle
A Honda ST1100 motorcycle and a New Holland agricultural vehicle were involved in a crash on the A38 in Cornwall at 10:03 on Sunday 29 July 2001. A 50-year-old female passenger on the Honda ST1100 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an oily single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jul 2001
- Sunday, 10:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda ST1100 and New Holland
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.40857, longitude -4.20811, in the PL12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Saltash Essa, Cornwall, PL12 4EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200150B612882
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 2014.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 15 October 2014
6 m awayRef 201450BS2C013
Slight
Honda CB600F crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 16 March 2003
10 m awayRef 200350B61C197
Slight
Suzuki GZ 125 crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 29 November 2007
10 m awayRef 200750B61O470
Slight
Hyundai Sonata crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 6 July 2009
10 m awayRef 200950BS2C018
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 10 March 1989
10 m awayRef 198950B610370
Slight
Chrysler Neon crash on the A38 in Plymouth, 26 September 2006
10 m awayRef 200650E21L913
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda ST1100
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,084 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: New Holland
Agricultural vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda ST1100)
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 200150B612882 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.