Unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR15 on 3 March 2016 at 14:40 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 14:40 on Thursday 3 March 2016. A 76-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Mar 2016
- Thursday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.22759, longitude -5.26811, 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
- 201650AC3C005
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 3047
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 2010.
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A3047 in Cornwall, 24 July 2010
8 m awayRef 201050AC3C030
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A3047 in Cornwall, 19 September 1991
13 m awayRef 199150A221495
Slight
Car crash on the A3047 in Cornwall, 21 July 2007
13 m awayRef 200750A21I688
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A3047 in Cornwall, 3 April 2011
14 m awayRef 201150AC3C010
Slight
Chrysler 300C crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 20 November 2025
16 m awayRef 2025501701464
Slight
Lada 1200 crash on the A3047 in Cornwall, 1 November 1990
21 m awayRef 199050A221718
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 76, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 201650AC3C005 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.