B3266 crash in Cornwall on 14 April 1987 at 19:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B3266 in Cornwall at 19:10 on Tuesday 14 April 1987. A 58-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 and a 51-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Apr 1987
- Tuesday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.65929, longitude -4.6839, in the PL32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198750B720422
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3266
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 1992.
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the B3266 in Cornwall, 14 January 1992
10 m awayRef 199250B720064
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3266 in Cornwall, 8 November 2025
12 m awayRef 2025501665501
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3266 in Cornwall, 1 June 2025
13 m awayRef 2025501597233
Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on the B3266 in Cornwall, 2 July 2016
14 m awayRef 2016500087783
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B3266 in Cornwall, 28 September 2008
14 m awayRef 200850BC2E002
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the B3266 in Cornwall, 1 December 2008
14 m awayRef 200850BC2E003
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 51, 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 198750B720422 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 1987.