Fatal A388 crash in Cornwall on 23 December 1985 at 16:52 involving a car

Three cars were involved in a crash on the A388 in Cornwall at 16:52 on Monday 23 December 1985. The 28-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was killed.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Fatal
Date: 23 Dec 1985; Monday, 16:52
Vehicles: 3; Car and 2 others
Casualties: 1; 1 killed

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198550B531925
Council area: Cornwall
Police force: Devon and Cornwall

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 388
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 40 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class: B
Second road number: 3257

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (3)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South
Travelling to
North
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Leaving the carriageway
Offside
Hit object off carriageway
Other permanent object
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
28 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Parked
Travelling from
Parked
Travelling to
Parked
Lane or location
Not on carriageway
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
40 years
Vehicle 3: Car
Manoeuvre
Parked
Travelling from
Parked
Travelling to
Parked
Lane or location
Not on carriageway
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
27 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Fatal
Male, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 198550B531925 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.