A391 crash in Cornwall on 30 November 1988 at 20:35 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A391 in Cornwall at 20:35 on Wednesday 30 November 1988. The 17-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 1988
- Wednesday, 20:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.40535, longitude -4.78775, in the PL26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198850B411900
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 391
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 2001.
Slight
Fiat Tempra crash on the A391 in Cornwall, 31 July 2001
At the same spotRef 200150B412931
Serious
Citroen BX crash on the A391 in Cornwall, 3 February 1990
At the same spotRef 199050B410170
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A391 in Cornwall, 16 January 1991
10 m awayRef 199150B410080
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A391 in Cornwall, 3 June 2025
12 m awayRef 2025501598561
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A391 in Cornwall, 22 August 2001
14 m awayRef 200150B413380
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A391 in Cornwall, 25 June 2024
14 m awayRef 2024501495117
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198850B411900 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 1988.