Unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR16 on 24 December 2002 at 22:00 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 22:00 on Tuesday 24 December 2002. A 17-year-old male passenger and an 11-year-old female passenger were 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
- 24 Dec 2002
- Tuesday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.20021, longitude -5.24101, in the TR16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Four Lanes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Four Lanes, Beacon & Troon, Cornwall, TR16 6QF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200250A225573
- 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
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 1999.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 10 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199950A214349
Slight
Lotus Elise crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 30 March 2006
10 m awayRef 200650A21D693
Slight
Bus crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 19 June 2009
10 m awayRef 200950AC3C034
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 28 November 1984
14 m awayRef 198450A222324
Serious
Lorry crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 25 March 1980
14 m awayRef 198050A020489
Slight
Nissan X-Trail crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 21 June 2023
39 m awayRef 2023501324769
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200250A225573 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 2002.