Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL13 on 7 May 2021 at 18:09 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a BMW 1 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 18:09 on Friday 7 May 2021. The 59-year-old male driver of the BMW 1 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 May 2021
- Friday, 18:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.39007, longitude -4.4292, in the PL13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021501049016
- 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
- 60 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, 25 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 June 1984.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Cornwall, 27 June 1984
25 m awayRef 198450B520876
Serious
Scooter crash on a C road in Cornwall, 16 June 1985
38 m awayRef 198550B520814
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Cornwall, 21 November 1992
112 m awayRef 199250B521624
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 20 January 1993
114 m awayRef 199350B520102
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 31 December 2005
154 m awayRef 200550B52R121
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 21 May 2021
287 m awayRef 2021501056226
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 1 Series)
- 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 2021501049016 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 2021.