C road crash in Cornwall PL26 on 2 December 2011 at 22:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on a C road in Cornwall at 22:00 on Friday 2 December 2011. The 24-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2011
- Friday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.37434, longitude -4.77874, in the PL26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Penwithick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penwithick & Boscoppa, Cornwall, PL26 8UG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150GA2D022
- 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, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 2009.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Cornwall, 24 November 2009
9 m awayRef 200950GA2D025
Serious
Lada Samara crash on a C road in Cornwall, 4 June 1991
15 m awayRef 199150B410679
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Cornwall, 30 June 1979
23 m awayRef 197950B180827
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 23 September 2003
23 m awayRef 200350B41K867
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 5 February 1989
25 m awayRef 198950B410186
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 15 February 2010
37 m awayRef 201050GA2D007
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 201150GA2D022 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.