A390 crash in Cornwall on 26 February 2004 at 08:15 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and two Ford Mondeos were involved in a crash on the A390 in Cornwall at 08:15 on Thursday 26 February 2004. The 22-year-old female driver of the Fiat Punto was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow and high winds on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2004
- Thursday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Fiat Punto and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.27429, longitude -5.14793, in the TR4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Threemilestone & Chacewater, Cornwall, TR4 8PH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200450A41C552
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 390
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 2012.
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 10 April 2012
6 m awayRef 201250GT3F017
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 4 December 1996
20 m awayRef 199650A414421
Serious
BMW M4 crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 15 April 2021
29 m awayRef 2021501040387
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 18 March 2021
32 m awayRef 2021501032224
Slight
Kawasaki ER500 crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 27 May 2010
36 m awayRef 201050GT3F013
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 16 July 1996
40 m awayRef 199650A412176
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,544 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 200450A41C552 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 2004.