Serious unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL34 on 27 June 2015 at 13:21 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 13:21 on Saturday 27 June 2015. The 78-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jun 2015
- Saturday, 13:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.66077, longitude -4.71849, in the PL34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550BC2G005
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 2003.
Slight
Renault Master crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 16 August 2003
42 m awayRef 200350B71O386
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Cornwall, 1 July 1988
50 m awayRef 198850B720889
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 29 March 1979
62 m awayRef 197950B300389
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 6 July 2014
87 m awayRef 201450BC2G004
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3082 in Cornwall, 10 July 1998
100 m awayRef 199850B412418
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 18 October 1986
137 m awayRef 198650B721972
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,699 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
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 201550BC2G005 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.