Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL17 on 22 June 2012 at 09:00 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 09:00 on Friday 22 June 2012. A 5-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jun 2012
- Friday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.50079, longitude -4.31486, in the PL17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Callington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Callington & St Dominic, Cornwall, PL17 7RB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250BN2D008
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 66 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 1998.
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Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 22 December 1998
66 m awayRef 199850B534991
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Car crash on the A388 in Cornwall, 2 May 2014
120 m awayRef 201450BN2D014
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Motorcycle crash on the A388 in Cornwall, 28 March 1985
130 m awayRef 198550B530374
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Vehicle crash on the A388 in Cornwall, 10 March 1991
137 m awayRef 199150B530296
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Car crash on the A388 in Cornwall, 11 November 1984
137 m awayRef 198450B311694
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Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A388 in Cornwall, 30 January 2019
142 m awayRef 2019500815387
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201250BN2D008 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.