Serious B3290 crash in Cornwall on 4 August 1985 at 02:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B3290 in Cornwall at 02:00 on Sunday 4 August 1985. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and a 21-year-old male passenger 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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Aug 1985
- Sunday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.15621, longitude -5.0821, in the TR11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Falmouth.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550A511525
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3290
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 1983.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3290 in Cornwall, 3 August 1983
At the same spotRef 198350A511420
Slight
Car crash on the B3290 in Cornwall, 22 March 1984
At the same spotRef 198450A510435
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 15 March 2006
At the same spotRef 200650A51D083
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3290 in Cornwall, 2 May 1982
At the same spotRef 198250A510726
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 4 April 2011
1 m awayRef 201150GP2I005
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 31 August 1999
10 m awayRef 199950A513240
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 198550A511525 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 1985.