B3306 crash in Cornwall on 22 October 2020 at 12:22 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a mobility scooter were involved in a crash on the B3306 in Cornwall at 12:22 on Thursday 22 October 2020. The 71-year-old male rider of the mobility scooter 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
- 22 Oct 2020
- Thursday, 12:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and mobility scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.21174, longitude -5.48101, in the TR26 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Ives. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Ives West & Towednack, Cornwall, TR26 2LS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020500995900
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3306
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 February 1994.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B3306 in Cornwall, 8 February 1994
6 m awayRef 199450A320257
Slight
Van crash on the B3306 in Cornwall, 5 August 1987
9 m awayRef 198750A321234
Slight
Car crash on the B3306 in Cornwall, 19 September 2007
10 m awayRef 200750A32L564
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B3306 in Cornwall, 5 September 2009
10 m awayRef 200950AI3G023
Serious
Lorry crash on the B3306 in Cornwall, 8 June 1982
13 m awayRef 198250A320991
Slight
Car crash on the B3306 in Cornwall, 10 March 1979
13 m awayRef 197950A040395
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mobility scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 71, mobility scooter rider, on vehicle 2 (Mobility scooter)
- 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 2020500995900 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.