C road crash in Cornwall TR20 on 29 September 2012 at 17:45 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on a C road in Cornwall at 17:45 on Saturday 29 September 2012. A 42-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 2012
- Saturday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.12867, longitude -5.50342, in the TR20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Longrock. It is one of the crashes that make up the Long Rock, Marazion & St Erth, Cornwall, TR20 8LD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250AP2M020
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 2004.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 22 September 2004
7 m awayRef 200450A31N340
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Cornwall, 22 November 2009
15 m awayRef 200950AP2M037
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 2 August 1980
17 m awayRef 198050A031453
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 17 March 2017
18 m awayRef 2017500167554
Slight
Ford Ka+ crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 11 November 2018
25 m awayRef 2018500801992
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 19 October 2020
25 m awayRef 2020500994949
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 42, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201250AP2M020 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 2012.