Serious unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR11 on 25 December 2015 at 01:31 involving a Volkswagen Bora
A Volkswagen Bora hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 01:31 on Friday 25 December 2015. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Dec 2015
- Friday, 01:31
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Bora
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.15554, longitude -5.08168, in the TR11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Falmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Falmouth Penwerris, Cornwall, TR11 3QL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550GP2I010
- 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
- Urban
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 February 2002.
Slight
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Serious
Talbot Horizon crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 3 November 1994
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 12 August 2003
15 m awayRef 200350A51J584
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 24 October 1991
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Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 20 December 2000
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Bora
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Bora)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 201550GP2I010 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.