A388 crash in Cornwall on 8 May 1995 at 17:10 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A388 in Cornwall at 17:10 on Monday 8 May 1995. The 61-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort and a 63-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 1995
- Monday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.50264, longitude -4.31355, in the PL17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Callington.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199550B530595
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 2007.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A388 in Cornwall, 21 October 2007
At the same spotRef 200750B53N016
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A388 in Cornwall, 21 October 2019
1 m awayRef 2019500902014
Slight
Volvo V50 crash on the A388 in Cornwall, 16 June 2023
2 m awayRef 2023501319538
Serious
Honda NSC crash on the A388 in Cornwall, 3 April 2024
3 m awayRef 2024501427714
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 26 September 2011
6 m awayRef 201150BN2D027
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A388 in Cornwall, 20 September 2011
6 m awayRef 201150BS2C025
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- 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 199550B530595 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 1995.