Unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR18 on 24 June 2012 at 10:55 involving a Land Rover Discovery
A Land Rover Discovery hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 10:55 on Sunday 24 June 2012. A 65-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jun 2012
- Sunday, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.11692, longitude -5.53434, in the TR18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Penzance. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penzance East, Cornwall, TR18 2SL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250AP2Q006
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Authorised person
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 1980.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 11 January 1980
6 m awayRef 198050A030068
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 21 October 1988
6 m awayRef 198850A311814
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 13 July 1983
6 m awayRef 198350A311203
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 26 July 1985
9 m awayRef 198550A311338
Slight
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 26 July 1999
14 m awayRef 199950A312594
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 29 May 2024
23 m awayRef 2024501449697
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (Land Rover Discovery)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 201250AP2Q006 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.