A394 crash in Cornwall on 13 September 2020 at 09:30 involving a Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle
A car and a Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A394 in Cornwall at 09:30 on Sunday 13 September 2020. The 25-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 2020
- Sunday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Yamaha YZF R1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.12722, longitude -5.45775, in the TR17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020500984789
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 394
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a fatal crash on 15 July 2006.
Fatal
Car crash on the A394 in Cornwall, 15 July 2006
5 m awayRef 200650A31I425
Serious
Car crash on the A394 in Cornwall, 27 November 1982
5 m awayRef 198250A312420
Serious
Car crash on the A394 in Cornwall, 16 July 2015
66 m awayRef 201550AP2L003
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 11 January 2024
119 m awayRef 2024501397376
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 5 November 2003
132 m awayRef 200350A31N804
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A394 in Cornwall, 7 July 1993
132 m awayRef 199350A311632
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Yamaha YZF R1
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YZF R1)
- 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 2020500984789 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 2020.