C road crash in Cornwall TR18 on 12 October 2014 at 02:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Cornwall at 02:00 on Sunday 12 October 2014. A male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2014
- Sunday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.12113, longitude -5.5338, 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
- 201450AP2P020
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 1998.
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 21 April 1998
4 m awayRef 199850A311463
Slight
Bristol (BLMC) crash on a C road in Cornwall, 23 August 1990
4 m awayRef 199050A311298
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 26 October 2025
4 m awayRef 2025501659468
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 27 August 1999
10 m awayRef 199950A313243
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 22 April 2004
11 m awayRef 200450A31F123
Slight
Bristol (BLMC) crash on the B3311 in Cornwall, 3 July 2004
11 m awayRef 200450A31I968
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing in zig-zag exit lines
- 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 201450AP2P020 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 2014.