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B3301 crash in Cornwall on 29 November 1998 at 00:15 involving a Datsun Sunny

A Datsun Sunny crashed on the B3301 in Cornwall at 00:15 on Sunday 29 November 1998. A 34-year-old female passenger and the 29-year-old male driver were slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
29 Nov 1998
Sunday, 00:15
Vehicles
1
Datsun Sunny
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.22098, longitude -5.38549, in the TR27 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199850A334519
Council area
Cornwall
Police force
Devon and Cornwall

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
3301
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 May 1992.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Datsun Sunny

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    29 years
    Engine capacity
    1,488 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    16 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Datsun Sunny)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

  • Casualty 2: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Datsun Sunny)

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 199850A334519 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 1998.