Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL15 on 23 June 2019 at 04:57 involving a Suzuki GSF 1200 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSF 1200 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 04:57 on Sunday 23 June 2019. The 25-year-old male rider 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
- 23 Jun 2019
- Sunday, 04:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSF 1200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.63043, longitude -4.36887, in the PL15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Launceston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Launceston South, Cornwall, PL15 9DS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019500858844
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 2011.
Slight
Mitsubishi Lancer crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 21 August 2011
13 m awayRef 201150BL2K027
Slight
Freight Rover Sherpa crash on the A388 in Cornwall, 12 January 1994
43 m awayRef 199450B210061
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 25 December 2008
76 m awayRef 200850BL2K062
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A388 in Cornwall, 5 October 1998
81 m awayRef 199850B213861
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 6 March 1980
81 m awayRef 198050B240224
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 10 April 1993
96 m awayRef 199350B210342
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSF 1200
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,157 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSF 1200)
- 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 2019500858844 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.