Unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR1 on 16 February 2019 at 23:28 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 23:28 on Saturday 16 February 2019. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 2019
- Saturday, 23:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.26148, longitude -5.06955, in the TR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Truro. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gloweth, Malabar & Shortlanesend, Cornwall, TR1 3NT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019500820527
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 390
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 2004.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 16 October 2004
4 m awayRef 200450A41O599
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 13 January 2016
15 m awayRef 201650GT3W003
Slight
BMW Z3 crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 2 August 2009
19 m awayRef 200950GT3W053
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 21 April 2008
19 m awayRef 200850A41D363
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 22 October 2021
19 m awayRef 2021501111796
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 30 January 2023
20 m awayRef 2023501269875
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2019500820527 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 2019.