Serious A3083 crash in Cornwall on 19 July 1981 at 16:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A3083 in Cornwall at 16:15 on Sunday 19 July 1981. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jul 1981
- Sunday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 4
- 2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 49.99963, longitude -5.21303, in the TR12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150A061382
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3083
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 17 August 1981.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3083 in Cornwall, 17 August 1981
At the same spotRef 198150A111589
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A3085 in Cornwall, 4 February 2002
22 m awayRef 200250A230374
Slight
Car crash on the A3083 in Cornwall, 26 May 2012
27 m awayRef 201250AH2M001
Slight
Car crash on the A3083 in Cornwall, 11 August 1987
28 m awayRef 198750A231272
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A3083 in Cornwall, 24 April 1997
28 m awayRef 199750A311220
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3083 in Cornwall, 11 February 1996
28 m awayRef 199650A230378
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198150A061382 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 1981.