Unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR15 on 9 April 2016 at 06:48 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 06:48 on Saturday 9 April 2016. A 26-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 2016
- Saturday, 06:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.22246, longitude -5.26816, in the TR15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pool & Tehidy, Cornwall, TR15 3FT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500062618
- 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
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 2006.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on a C road in Cornwall, 2 September 2006
8 m awayRef 200650A22K851
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 22 June 2000
14 m awayRef 200050A222123
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 45 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 31 July 2007
14 m awayRef 200750A22J054
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 16 November 2004
14 m awayRef 200450A21Q266
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Cornwall, 23 August 1995
18 m awayRef 199550A221471
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Cornwall, 9 June 2007
28 m awayRef 200750A22G378
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,222 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2016500062618 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 2016.