A30 crash in Cornwall on 10 February 2006 at 15:15 involving a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle
A Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the A30 in Cornwall at 15:15 on Friday 10 February 2006. The 22-year-old male rider of the Suzuki SV 650 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
- 10 Feb 2006
- Friday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki SV 650 and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42592, longitude -4.82354, in the PL26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200650B41B599
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 October 2005.
Serious
Ford crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 27 October 2005
22 m awayRef 200550A62O171
Serious
Lorry crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 18 September 1985
22 m awayRef 198550B411341
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 16 July 1988
28 m awayRef 198850B411015
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 9 December 1989
32 m awayRef 198950B412117
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 3 March 1997
36 m awayRef 199750B410664
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 5 October 1985
50 m awayRef 198550B411428
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki SV 650)
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 200650B41B599 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 2006.