A30 crash in Cornwall on 18 September 2011 at 16:00 involving a Honda Jazz
A Honda Jazz and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A30 in Cornwall at 16:00 on Sunday 18 September 2011. The 28-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra and a 70-year-old female passenger in the Honda Jazz were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2011
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Jazz and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.1743, longitude -5.43986, in the TR27 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Ives East, Lelant & Carbis Bay, Cornwall, TR27 6GQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150AY2E005
- 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
- Roundabout
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 30
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 2018.
Slight
Hyundai ix20 crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 12 October 2018
1 m awayRef 2018500800483
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on the B3301 in Cornwall, 21 September 2004
3 m awayRef 200450A32N344
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 8 October 1985
3 m awayRef 198550A331947
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 27 March 1986
7 m awayRef 198650A330495
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 30 June 2016
10 m awayRef 2016500101835
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 3 February 2003
10 m awayRef 200350A33A953
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Jazz)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 201150AY2E005 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.