C road crash in Cornwall EX23 on 18 December 1988 at 00:40 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Cornwall at 00:40 on Sunday 18 December 1988. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1988
- Sunday, 00:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82761, longitude -4.54657, in the EX23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bude.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198850B711978
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 September 2007.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 10 September 2007
32 m awayRef 200750B71K923
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 1 May 2003
36 m awayRef 200350B71G644
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Cornwall, 1 October 1992
51 m awayRef 199250B711290
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 23 January 1980
51 m awayRef 198050B290099
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 29 December 2004
64 m awayRef 200450B71S273
Slight
Citroen Lna crash on a C road in Cornwall, 1 May 1990
64 m awayRef 199050B710621
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 198850B711978 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.