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