Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL15 on 21 August 2011 at 15:00 involving a Mitsubishi Lancer
A Mitsubishi Lancer and a Vauxhall Agila were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 15:00 on Sunday 21 August 2011. A 35-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Agila and a 10-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Agila were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Aug 2011
- Sunday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi Lancer and Vauxhall Agila
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.6304, longitude -4.36909, in the PL15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Launceston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Launceston South, Cornwall, PL15 9DS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150BL2K027
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto signal part defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
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Serious
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Lancer
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Gas bi-fuel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Agila
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Agila)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Agila)
- 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 201150BL2K027 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.