Serious unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR3 on 22 August 2016 at 15:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 15:25 on Monday 22 August 2016. A 73-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Aug 2016
- Monday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.26135, longitude -5.11498, in the TR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Threemilestone. It is one of the crashes that make up the Threemilestone & Chacewater, Cornwall, TR3 6FT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500108300
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 1997.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 13 May 1997
13 m awayRef 199750A411514
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Cornwall, 1 March 2009
43 m awayRef 200950GT3F006
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Cornwall, 17 April 1982
43 m awayRef 198250A410651
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 25 October 1995
56 m awayRef 199550A411752
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 5 April 2007
78 m awayRef 200750A41E047
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 9 March 1987
102 m awayRef 198750A410309
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 73, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2016500108300 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.