Unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR20 on 16 January 2015 at 17:00 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 17:00 on Friday 16 January 2015. A 17-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 2015
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.14787, longitude -5.47892, in the TR20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crowlas.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550AP2M004
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 July 1985.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 8 July 1985
33 m awayRef 198550A311165
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 14 January 1983
60 m awayRef 198350A310080
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 18 October 1997
138 m awayRef 199750A313887
Serious
Kawasaki crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 20 March 1998
143 m awayRef 199850A310896
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 14 May 1997
145 m awayRef 199750A311506
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 18 September 2008
150 m awayRef 200850AP2M021
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
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 201550AP2M004 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 2015.