Unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR13 on 31 July 2017 at 13:00 involving a Smart Roadster
A Smart Roadster hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 13:00 on Monday 31 July 2017. A 67-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 2017
- Monday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Smart Roadster
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.09971, longitude -5.27253, in the TR13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Helston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Helston North, Cornwall, TR13 8AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500212498
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 2009.
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Dodge crash on a C road in Cornwall, 4 August 1992
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Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 13 March 2006
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Peugeot Expert crash on a C road in Cornwall, 7 March 2009
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Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 25 August 1988
21 m awayRef 198850A231394
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Van crash on the A394 in Cornwall, 16 February 1981
26 m awayRef 198150A060299
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Smart Roadster
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 698 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 67, hit by vehicle 1 (Smart Roadster)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
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 2017500212498 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 2017.