A39 crash in Cornwall on 13 January 1982 at 14:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A39 in Cornwall at 14:50 on Wednesday 13 January 1982. The 62-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 and a 62-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jan 1982
- Wednesday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.27224, longitude -5.03471, in the TR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Truro.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250A410074
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 39
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 3076
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 10 May 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 10 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198950A410660
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 10 June 2019
3 m awayRef 2019500853299
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 15 September 2025
8 m awayRef 2025501641942
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 27 March 2022
9 m awayRef 2022501163098
Slight
Dennis crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 26 July 2017
9 m awayRef 2017500208526
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 23 July 1980
10 m awayRef 198050A081374
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 62, 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 198250A410074 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 1982.