C road crash in Cornwall TR11 on 9 January 2014 at 10:02 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A car and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on a C road in Cornwall at 10:02 on Thursday 9 January 2014. The 78-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jan 2014
- Thursday, 10:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.15317, longitude -5.07442, in the TR11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Falmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Falmouth Penwerris, Cornwall, TR11 3QL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450GP2B001
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 2015.
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 14 July 2015
3 m awayRef 201550GP2B014
Serious
Car crash on the B3361 in Cornwall, 2 August 1979
21 m awayRef 197950A111353
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 15 December 2000
21 m awayRef 200050A514872
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the B3361 in Cornwall, 5 September 1990
24 m awayRef 199050A511432
Slight
Car crash on the B3361 in Cornwall, 2 July 1989
24 m awayRef 198950A510947
Slight
Car crash on the B3361 in Cornwall, 24 April 1981
28 m awayRef 198150A110711
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 78 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201450GP2B001 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.