C road crash in Cornwall TR1 on 22 December 2012 at 17:25 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo hit a pedestrian on a C road in Cornwall at 17:25 on Saturday 22 December 2012. A 53-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.26103, longitude -5.05174, in the TR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Truro. It is one of the crashes that make up the Truro Moresk & Trehaverne, Cornwall, TR1 2LS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250GT3W070
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- Raining, no 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 1987.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 10 February 1987
2 m awayRef 198750A410182
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Cornwall, 25 April 1980
8 m awayRef 198050A080715
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Cornwall, 31 May 1980
8 m awayRef 198050A080927
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 16 January 1998
21 m awayRef 199850A410179
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 13 March 1999
35 m awayRef 199950A410787
Serious
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 24 November 2004
37 m awayRef 200450A41Q777
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,527 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- 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 201250GT3W070 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.