C road crash in Cornwall PL10 on 31 December 2014 at 15:08 involving a Volkswagen Sharan
A Volkswagen Sharan hit a pedestrian on a C road in Cornwall at 15:08 on Wednesday 31 December 2014. A 56-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2014
- Wednesday, 15:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Sharan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.3421, longitude -4.24195, in the PL10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450BT2E004
- 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
- 60 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 January 2017.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 29 January 2017
17 m awayRef 2017500159209
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Cornwall, 11 February 1981
93 m awayRef 198150B210214
Slight
Bristol (BLMC) crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 16 July 2004
178 m awayRef 200450B62K304
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Cornwall, 1 August 1981
191 m awayRef 198150B211071
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 16 August 1992
357 m awayRef 199250B621078
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Cornwall, 10 June 2014
418 m awayRef 201450BT2E001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Sharan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 56, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Sharan)
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 201450BT2E004 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.