Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL12 on 21 April 2003 at 21:55 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 21:55 on Monday 21 April 2003. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 2003
- Monday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.40984, longitude -4.22633, in the PL12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Saltash. It is one of the crashes that make up the Saltash Essa, Cornwall, PL12 6DU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200350B61D640
- 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
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 March 1995.
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 22 March 1995
40 m awayRef 199550B610358
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 9 November 1988
40 m awayRef 198850B611815
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 26 January 1979
41 m awayRef 197950B220095
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 12 August 1990
41 m awayRef 199050B611288
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 20 September 1981
41 m awayRef 198150B221290
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 7 March 1991
51 m awayRef 199150B610305
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
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 200350B61D640 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 2003.