Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL18 on 3 April 2015 at 14:03 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 14:03 on Friday 3 April 2015. The 17-year-old female driver, a 17-year-old female passenger and a 16-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Apr 2015
- Friday, 14:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.50724, longitude -4.22115, in the PL18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550BN2E005
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 2010.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 6 August 2010
20 m awayRef 201050BN2E016
Serious
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 30 June 2001
21 m awayRef 200150B532344
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Cornwall, 14 February 1989
29 m awayRef 198950B530229
Serious
Peugeot Speedfight crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 27 March 2015
44 m awayRef 201550BN2E004
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Cornwall, 26 September 1979
49 m awayRef 197950B151451
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Cornwall, 24 September 1991
52 m awayRef 199150B531308
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 201550BN2E005 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.