Unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR15 on 15 April 2018 at 15:40 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 15:40 on Sunday 15 April 2018. A 20-year-old female passenger 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
- 15 Apr 2018
- Sunday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.22727, longitude -5.25369, 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 3LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500289341
- 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
- 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, 28 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 January 2014.
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 7 January 2014
28 m awayRef 201450AC3C001
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 4 November 2016
29 m awayRef 2016500126950
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 26 January 2013
38 m awayRef 201350AC3C004
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 11 October 1993
80 m awayRef 199350A222491
Serious
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A3047 in Cornwall, 6 January 2017
110 m awayRef 2017500147241
Slight
Skoda Felicia crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 28 July 2010
112 m awayRef 201050AC3C033
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- 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 2018500289341 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 2018.