B3297 crash in Cornwall on 12 January 2005 at 14:00 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B3297 in Cornwall at 14:00 on Wednesday 12 January 2005. The 24-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 2005
- Wednesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 400 Series and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.17497, longitude -5.24897, in the TR13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550A23A643
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3297
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 2009.
Slight
Car crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 10 March 2009
32 m awayRef 200950AH2E003
Slight
Car crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 11 December 1985
92 m awayRef 198550A222437
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 4 December 2002
92 m awayRef 200250A235447
Slight
Car crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 17 October 1986
92 m awayRef 198650A231910
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 31 May 2023
97 m awayRef 2023501313892
Slight
Van crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 30 April 1986
98 m awayRef 198650A230697
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 176 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (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 200550A23A643 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 2005.