Unclassified road crash in Cornwall on 28 December 1998 at 14:05 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 14:05 on Monday 28 December 1998. A 68-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 1998
- Monday, 14:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199850B314946
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- 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 199850B314946 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.