Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL10 on 5 April 2018 at 15:45 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 15:45 on Thursday 5 April 2018. A male 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
- 5 Apr 2018
- Thursday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.3324, longitude -4.20099, in the PL10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500292272
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 2006.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 29 June 2006
22 m awayRef 200650B62H707
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Cornwall, 30 December 1987
45 m awayRef 198750B621782
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 4 November 2022
56 m awayRef 2022501243136
Slight
Chrysler Voyager crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 10 August 2011
71 m awayRef 201150BT2G003
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Cornwall, 27 December 2008
74 m awayRef 200850BT2G006
Serious
Freight Rover Sherpa crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 2 October 1990
81 m awayRef 199050B621585
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018500292272 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.