Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL17 on 18 October 2005 at 14:58 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Mazda MX-5 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 14:58 on Tuesday 18 October 2005. The 35-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 2005
- Tuesday, 14:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.54163, longitude -4.27642, in the PL17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550B53N545
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 135 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 1985.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 25 October 1985
135 m awayRef 198550B531561
Serious
Bus crash on a C road in Cornwall, 20 July 1981
141 m awayRef 198150B170910
Serious
Lorry crash on a C road in Cornwall, 19 July 1983
141 m awayRef 198350B530931
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 28 May 2015
146 m awayRef 201550BN2B007
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 20 May 2016
192 m awayRef 2016500072784
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 28 March 1983
300 m awayRef 198350B530404
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,840 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 200550B53N545 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.