A30 crash in Cornwall on 15 October 2011 at 12:58 involving a Honda CRV
A Honda CRV and a car were involved in a crash on the A30 in Cornwall at 12:58 on Saturday 15 October 2011. The 35-year-old male driver of the car and a 47-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2011
- Saturday, 12:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CRV and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.58847, longitude -4.53001, in the PL15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150BL2L011
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 July 2003.
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 10 July 2003
21 m awayRef 200350B21I156
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 17 October 2008
21 m awayRef 200850BL2L009
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 1 February 2014
50 m awayRef 201450BL2L005
Serious
Lorry crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 22 January 1984
91 m awayRef 198450B310086
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 23 May 1987
141 m awayRef 198750B210568
Fatal
Peugeot 309 crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 21 August 2009
171 m awayRef 200950BL2L014
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CRV
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 201150BL2L011 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.