A311 crash on the Isles of Scilly on 8 April 2009 at 08:55 involving a Vauxhall Combo
A Vauxhall Combo hit a pedestrian on the A311 on the Isles of Scilly at 08:55 on Wednesday 8 April 2009. An 88-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 2009
- Wednesday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 49.91449, longitude -6.31616, in the TR21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isles of Scilly
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950AS2A002
- Council area
- Isles of Scilly
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 311
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 July 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A3111 in Cornwall, 9 July 1980
32 m awayRef 198050A031343
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road on the Isles of Scilly, 29 June 2022
40 m awayRef 2022501298394
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road on the Isles of Scilly, 13 July 2001
42 m awayRef 200150A313215
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 8 April 1981
42 m awayRef 198150A030656
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 11 June 1980
42 m awayRef 198050A031050
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A3112 on the Isles of Scilly, 10 August 2008
61 m awayRef 200850AS2A015
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 88, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Combo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200950AS2A002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isles of Scilly road accident statistics for 2009.