Serious unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR18 on 1 April 2013 at 20:23 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 20:23 on Monday 1 April 2013. The 23-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Apr 2013
- Monday, 20:23
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.12089, longitude -5.53156, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201350AP2P004
- 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
- Urban
- 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, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 2007.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 11 May 2007
18 m awayRef 200750A31F513
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 2 January 2004
41 m awayRef 200450A31A122
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on a C road in Cornwall, 18 July 1995
46 m awayRef 199550A311149
Serious
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 21 May 1998
62 m awayRef 199850A311603
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 20 October 1997
65 m awayRef 199750A313848
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 7 November 1991
65 m awayRef 199150A311659
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 23, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201350AP2P004 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 2013.