Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL12 on 4 June 2024 at 15:30 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 15:30 on Tuesday 4 June 2024. A 92-year-old male passenger 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
- 4 Jun 2024
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.43641, longitude -4.24117, in the PL12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024501451786
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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, 86 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 1991.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Cornwall, 24 June 1991
86 m awayRef 199150B610814
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 21 November 2023
354 m awayRef 2023501377313
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Cornwall, 12 October 1986
384 m awayRef 198650B611935
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 23 November 2017
393 m awayRef 2017500248476
Serious
Mitsubishi L200 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 24 May 2025
451 m awayRef 2025501594392
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 9 December 2000
542 m awayRef 200050B614718
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 92, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024501451786 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 2024.