C road crash in Cornwall TR4 on 2 October 1982 at 00:30 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Cornwall at 00:30 on Saturday 2 October 1982. The 21-year-old male driver and a 20-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 1982
- Saturday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.25524, longitude -5.16622, in the TR4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250A411989
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 1979.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 18 March 1979
10 m awayRef 197950A080452
Serious
Honda CBR crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 9 December 2025
11 m awayRef 2025501680180
Slight
Mercedes 400 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 10 December 1996
64 m awayRef 199650A214492
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Cornwall, 4 May 1984
70 m awayRef 198450A410692
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 29 September 2000
95 m awayRef 200050A413669
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Cornwall, 19 August 1989
100 m awayRef 198950A411290
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198250A411989 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.