Serious B3304 crash in Cornwall on 7 July 2011 at 05:31 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A Kawasaki motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B3304 in Cornwall at 05:31 on Thursday 7 July 2011. The 22-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Jul 2011
- Thursday, 05:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.09581, longitude -5.28544, in the TR13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150AH2R014
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3304
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2018.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B3304 in Cornwall, 8 December 2018
8 m awayRef 2018500806240
Slight
Honda CBR900RR crash on the B3304 in Cornwall, 20 May 2003
12 m awayRef 200350A23I337
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B3304 in Cornwall, 7 December 2007
12 m awayRef 200750A23P171
Slight
Van crash on the B3304 in Cornwall, 17 June 1980
12 m awayRef 198050A061066
Serious
Car crash on the B3304 in Cornwall, 4 April 1979
22 m awayRef 197950A060532
Serious
Bristol (BLMC) crash on the B3304 in Cornwall, 23 July 2003
22 m awayRef 200350A23I815
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)
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 201150AH2R014 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 2011.