C road crash in Cornwall TR17 on 21 January 2011 at 20:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on a C road in Cornwall at 20:15 on Friday 21 January 2011. A 20-year-old male passenger, a 21-year-old male passenger and a 23-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2011
- Friday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.1246, longitude -5.46245, in the TR17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Marazion.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150AP2L001
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A394 in Cornwall, 11 June 1981
17 m awayRef 198150A031051
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 14 April 2024
51 m awayRef 2024501470632
Slight
Bristol (BLMC) crash on a C road in Cornwall, 11 October 1993
87 m awayRef 199350A312431
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 14 June 1986
92 m awayRef 198650A311188
Slight
Suzuki crash on a C road in Cornwall, 4 February 1992
92 m awayRef 199250A310191
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Cornwall, 17 December 1994
106 m awayRef 199450A312762
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 201150AP2L001 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.