Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL18 on 8 September 2016 at 12:00 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 12:00 on Thursday 8 September 2016. A 54-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 2016
- Thursday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.49773, longitude -4.21372, 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
- 2016500108355
- 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
- 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
- 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, 62 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 2000.
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 9 April 2000
62 m awayRef 200050B531100
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 26 July 1979
104 m awayRef 197950B151012
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 11 April 1996
109 m awayRef 199650B531068
Slight
Gilera SC 125 crash on a C road in Cornwall, 1 November 2010
163 m awayRef 201050BN2E020
Serious
Ford S-Max crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 12 October 2019
167 m awayRef 2019500891480
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 20 May 1989
172 m awayRef 198950B530758
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 54, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2016500108355 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.