A38 crash in Cornwall on 22 October 2015 at 17:37 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Oct 2015
- Thursday, 17:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.44944, longitude -4.45001, in the PL14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550BD2J008
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 35 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 2012.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 29 December 2012
35 m awayRef 201250BD2J017
Slight
Suzuki SJ crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 2 October 1992
68 m awayRef 199250B211313
Slight
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 13 December 2002
80 m awayRef 200250B515010
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 27 November 2003
98 m awayRef 200350B71O315
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 27 May 2013
100 m awayRef 201350BD2J007
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 8 February 1987
104 m awayRef 198750B310166
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 942 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 57, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201550BD2J008 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.