Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL10 on 7 September 2023 at 21:22 involving a Ford S-Max
A Ford S-Max hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 21:22 on Thursday 7 September 2023. A 16-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 2023
- Thursday, 21:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford S-Max
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.34766, longitude -4.21744, in the PL10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023501366258
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 2001.
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 11 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200150B620753
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Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 10 May 2025
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Rover 75 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 18 February 2019
28 m awayRef 2019500818968
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Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 6 January 1979
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Cornwall, 9 September 1991
36 m awayRef 199150B621255
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford S-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford S-Max)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2023501366258 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 2023.