Serious A39 crash in Cornwall on 19 October 2015 at 13:10 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Oct 2015
- Monday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89338, longitude -4.47759, in the EX23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550BU2B007
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 39
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 2008.
Slight
BMW M3 crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 21 February 2008
57 m awayRef 200850B71B732
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 20 July 1988
115 m awayRef 198850B711093
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 27 January 1998
233 m awayRef 199850C210536
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 19 November 1993
248 m awayRef 199350B712366
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 25 March 2006
263 m awayRef 200650B71D524
Slight
Volvo 480 crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 16 January 1998
269 m awayRef 199850C210291
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,294 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 51, 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 201550BU2B007 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.