Unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR15 on 2 March 2019 at 00:02 involving an Abarth 500
An Abarth 500 crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 00:02 on Saturday 2 March 2019. The 22-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 2019
- Saturday, 00:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Abarth 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.22032, longitude -5.26735, in the TR15 postcode district. 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
- 2019500822840
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 May 1991.
Serious
Yamaha crash on a C road in Cornwall, 19 May 1991
6 m awayRef 199150A220642
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 20 February 2001
18 m awayRef 200150A220693
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 5 April 1985
20 m awayRef 198550A220556
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 22 March 1987
20 m awayRef 198750A220357
Slight
Aprilia crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 29 October 2004
25 m awayRef 200450A21P535
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 16 October 1982
25 m awayRef 198250A222080
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Abarth 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Abarth 500)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019500822840 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.