Serious unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR7 on 30 July 2013 at 12:39 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 12:39 on Tuesday 30 July 2013. A 79-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jul 2013
- Tuesday, 12:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.41297, longitude -5.08181, in the TR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newquay. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newquay Central & Pentire, Cornwall, TR7 1AF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201350GN2A021
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 2005.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 27 March 2005
11 m awayRef 200550A61D477
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 2 July 2005
11 m awayRef 200550A61I419
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 4 April 2004
11 m awayRef 200450A61E175
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 17 January 2005
11 m awayRef 200550A61A530
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 14 June 1999
14 m awayRef 199950A612008
Slight
Bristol (BLMC) crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 6 January 1996
14 m awayRef 199650A610084
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 79, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
- 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 201350GN2A021 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.